TY - JOUR
T1 - Narratives of those who “love” violently
T2 - identity issues and construction of meaning of the batterers
AU - Dias, Ana Rita Conde
AU - Gonçalves, Rui Abrunhosa
AU - Manita, Celina
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - PSICOLOGIA
KW - AMOR
KW - VIOLÊNCIA CONJUGAL
KW - IDENTIDADE
KW - LOVE
KW - CONJUGAL VIOLENCE
KW - IDENTITY
KW - PSYCHOLOGY
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10437/12458
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049686947&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0022167818784989
DO - 10.1177/0022167818784989
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-1678
VL - 62
SP - 748
EP - 769
JO - Journal of Humanistic Psychology
JF - Journal of Humanistic Psychology
IS - 5
ER -