Abstract
The present study aims to identify and analyze the interpretative repertoires on love and intimate relationships used by wife batterers, exploring how the repertoires may influence the development and experience of violent intimate relationships, and how this is linked to the identity issues. Twelve wife batterers participated in the study, answering to an individual interview on their lives’ love story. Through a discourse analysis of the data, five distinct interpretative repertoires were identified—romantic, companion, passionate, pragmatic and game-playing love—and their meaning construction was analyzed. It is discussed what repertoires reveal about gender roles prescribed by the model of masculinity, and how these gender roles constrain the construction of the identity, the personal growth and the self-actualization of the batterers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 748-769 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of Humanistic Psychology |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | Jul 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2022 |
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Financial support for this research was obtained from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia–Science and Technology Foundation): SFRH/BD/28483/2006.
Keywords
- LOVE
- CONJUGAL VIOLENCE
- IDENTITY
- PSYCHOLOGY
