Moro Christian, Scaccia Michela, Camellini Teresa, Lugeri Livia, Marrocu Emanuele, Turchi Gian Piero
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 Sep 10;15(9):1229. doi: 10.3390/bs15091229.
In the field of gender-based violence research, the social constructionist strand focuses on how stereotypes and discourses impact the psychological, socio-economical and sanitary levels of actors involved. Narratives of victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) often revolve around feelings such as shame, guilt and fear; these are related to emotion regulation. Considering this, narratives on how the roles of victims, but also offenders, are shaped are pivotal for clinical interventions. Considering gender-based violence as a product of human discursive interaction, this exploratory work investigates the terms used to describe these two roles and the ways in which those terms are conveyed. Ad hoc open-ended questionnaires were administered to 35 respondents from an Italian anti-violence centre, including IPV victims and offenders and healthcare experts. Their answers were analysed through MADIT (Methodology for the Analysis of Computerised Text Data), while the software IRaMuTeQ (version 0.7 alpha 2) was used for content analysis. Starting from the research question of "how do victims, offenders and experts groups narrate the roles of victim and offender", the research hypothesis states that all three groups will adopt modalities that define the two roles into fixed and typical emotional categories. As anticipated, the results show that victims, offenders and experts depict both roles as immutable, categorising and judging the victims with words related with fear and self-guilt, while offenders are described with words related to anger and pathology. Lastly, we propose a framework for clinical intervention focused on fostering change towards a broader narrative to reduce the psychological impact of IPV events for victims, as well as modifying offenders' violent behaviours.
在基于性别的暴力研究领域，社会建构主义流派关注刻板印象和话语如何影响相关行为者的心理、社会经济及健康层面。亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）受害者的叙述往往围绕羞耻、内疚和恐惧等情感展开；这些情感与情绪调节有关。鉴于此，关于受害者以及施暴者角色如何形成的叙述对于临床干预至关重要。将基于性别的暴力视为人类话语互动的产物，这项探索性研究调查了用于描述这两种角色的术语以及这些术语的传达方式。对来自意大利一个反暴力中心的35名受访者进行了特别开放式问卷调查，受访者包括IPV受害者、施暴者和医疗专家。通过MADIT（计算机化文本数据分析方法）对他们的回答进行分析，同时使用软件IRaMuTeQ（0.7 alpha 2版本）进行内容分析。从“受害者、施暴者和专家群体如何叙述受害者和施暴者的角色”这一研究问题出发，研究假设指出，所有这三个群体都会采用将这两种角色定义为固定且典型情感类别的方式。正如预期的那样，结果表明，受害者、施暴者和专家都将这两种角色描绘为不变的，用与恐惧和自我内疚相关的词汇对受害者进行分类和评判，而用与愤怒和病态相关的词汇来描述施暴者。最后，我们提出了一个临床干预框架，重点是促成向更广泛叙述的转变，以减少IPV事件对受害者的心理影响，并改变施暴者的暴力行为。
