Psychological features of the coping strategy of women who are victims of domestic violence

Abstract

For an individual, choosing a coping or coping strategy in a problematic situation is a very complex and contradictory process. Coping strategies are implemented according to the logic of the individual, the importance of the clothes and internal psychological reserves. Domestic violence is a factor that weakens the effective behavior model of female victims. One way to prevent domestic violence is to identify coping strategies used by female victims in stressful situations.

In the study, the coping phenomenon and its structure were defined, and foreign studies were analyzed that considered the coping strategies used by women who were victims of domestic violence in difficult stressful situations. In an experimental study, C. Hobfall's "Strategies for Coping with Stressful Situations (SACS)" survey was used to compare the coping strategies frequently used by women who are victims of domestic violence and women from normal families. According to the results of the study, it was found that women who are victims of domestic violence in stressful situations use passive coping strategies, that is, they avoid solving the problem, or they often resort to antisocial strategies and aggressive actions. According to the results obtained from the mathematical analysis, there was no difference between the coping strategies used by women who were victims of domestic violence and women in normal families (t>0.005). The general index of constructive coping strategies of combative behavior of female victims showed a low degree. This means that women-victims often use direct, passive, asocial coping strategies, avoiding their partner, meeting him, and taking precautions. Also, women in normal families have a low degree of general constructiveness. The reason for this is that women in families with normal control have a low behavioral model of social contact within the prosocial strategy for coping with stress and avoid problem solving, do not strive for assertive, reliable actions.

The results obtained from the study are important in the use of social and psychological rehabilitation of women who are victims of domestic violence. Because adapting women victims to use constructive coping strategies is a way to get out of violence.