Estrupo marital: estratégias de coping utilizadas por mulheres

Abstract

The aim of this study is to unveil the coping strategies used by women in the face of the experience of marital rape. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, using the Coping theory proposed by Folkman and Lazarus. The research was developed in the field of Operation Ronda Maria da Penha, linked to the Military Police of the State of Bahia, with 16 women experiencing conjugal violence interviewed individually using a semi-structured form. Of the participants, all were black, aged between 24 and 51 years old and 13 had completed high school, six of whom attended higher education. Considering the analysis of the empirical material in line with the assumptions of Folkman and Lazarus, it was possible to identify the Coping strategies adopted by the collaborators, in the face of the experience of marital rape and to represent them from the following categories: escape-avoidance, self-control, withdrawal , acceptance of responsibility, confrontation, problem solving, social support and positive reassessment. It is concluded that in the face of marital rape, women use Coping strategies to deal with this stressful event, handling emotions, and thus reducing the impacts of suffering, in order to direct actions to solve the problem with the purpose of breaking the problem. abuse.