‘Nowadays, Girls Have Exceeded Their Limits’: A Qualitative Analysis of Dating Violence in Young Adults from Bengaluru, India

IF 2.7 3区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of Family Violence Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI:10.1007/s10896-024-00699-8

Ritika Chokhani, Abhilasha Das, Veena A. Satyanarayana

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aimed to understand how college-going young men and women in Bengaluru, India experience violence within dating relationships and their understanding of the role of gender in dating violence.

Methods

In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 undergraduate students aged between 18 and 21 years old. The data were analyzed using the framework of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.

Results

Five key themes emerged from participants’ accounts: (1) defining abuse, (2) experiencing abuse (3) impact of abuse (4) abuse is gendered and (5) abuse is multifaceted. The first theme identifies how definitions of abuse are ambiguous and context-specific while the second theme discusses how young adults experience abuse as feeling controlled, losing control or self-protection. The third theme highlights how abuse causes distress but can also invoke coping while the fourth theme discusses the unique gender dynamics in abuse. Finally, the fifth theme identifies the perceived role of individual and community-level efforts in preventing abuse.

Conclusions

Violence is experienced as a complex and distressing part of dating relationships. The phenomenological insights gained from the study underscore the need for early identification and have implications for developing dating violence interventions in colleges and for future research in similar contexts.

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如今，女孩们已经超越了自己的极限"：对印度班加罗尔青少年约会暴力的定性分析

目的本研究旨在了解印度班加罗尔上大学的青年男女如何在约会关系中经历暴力，以及他们对性别在约会暴力中的作用的理解。方法对 14 名年龄在 18 至 21 岁之间的本科生进行了深入访谈。结果从参与者的叙述中发现了五个关键主题：(1) 界定虐待；(2) 经历虐待；(3) 虐待的影响；(4) 虐待是性别化的；(5) 虐待是多方面的。第一个主题指出了虐待的定义是如何含糊不清和因人而异的，第二个主题讨论了青少年如何将虐待体验为感觉被控制、失去控制或自我保护。第三个主题强调了虐待如何造成痛苦，但也可以引起应对措施，第四个主题讨论了虐待中独特的性别动态。最后，第五个主题确定了个人和社区在预防虐待方面的作用。从研究中获得的现象学见解强调了早期识别的必要性，并对在高校中制定约会暴力干预措施以及今后在类似背景下开展研究具有重要意义。

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Journal of Family Violence Multiple-

CiteScore

7.00

自引率

10.50%

发文量

121

期刊介绍： The Journal of Family Violence (JOFV) is a peer-reviewed publication committed to the dissemination of rigorous research on preventing, ending, and ameliorating all forms of family violence. JOFV welcomes scholarly articles related to the broad categories of child abuse and maltreatment, dating violence, domestic and partner violence, and elder abuse. Within these categories, JOFV emphasizes research on physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, and homicides that occur in families. Studies on families in all their various forms and diversities are welcome. JOFV publishes studies using quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods involving the collection of primary data. Rigorous systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and theoretical analyses are also welcome. To help advance scientific understandings of family violence, JOFV is especially interested in research using transdisciplinary perspectives and innovative research methods. Because family violence is a global problem requiring solutions from diverse disciplinary perspectives, JOFV strongly encourages submissions from scholars worldwide from all disciplines and backgrounds.