Taxonomy and hierarchy of psychological abuse strategies in intimate partner relation-ships

• Autores: Alvaro Rodríguez Carballeira, Clara Porrúa García, Jordi Escartín Solanelles, Javier Martín Peña, Carmen Almendros
• Localización: Anales de psicología, ISSN-e 1695-2294, ISSN 0212-9728, Vol. 30, Nº. 3, 2014, págs. 916-926
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.6018/analesps.30.3.154001
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  • español

    Este estudio se centra en analizar los componentes del abuso psicológico en la violencia de pareja adulta y contra la mujer desde un enfo-que psicosocial. Tras realizar una revisión de los estudios sobre el tema, se plantea como primer objetivo el proponer una nueva taxonomía de estrate-gias de abuso psicológico, acompañadas de sus respectivas definiciones operativas. A partir de esta nueva clasificación, se traza un segundo objetivo que se centra en someter esta clasificación al juicio de un grupo de expertos a través de un estudio Delphi, en el que han participado 32 expertos de los ámbitos académico-universitario y profesional. Estos expertos debían juz-gar la adecuación del sistema de categorías, además de evaluar cuantitativa-mente la severidad que aporta cada una de las estrategias al fenómeno glo-bal del abuso psicológico en la pareja. Los resultados muestran que los ex-pertos ratifican la nueva clasificación de estrategias y sus definiciones opera-tivas, avalando así su validez de contenido y constructo. Además, jerarqui-zaron las estrategias de abuso, atribuyendo mayor severidad a las de tipo emocional, seguidas de las relacionadas con el contexto cercano, de las de tipo cognitivo y las de carácter conductual. Se discuten los resultados, sus limitaciones y las implicaciones que pueden derivarse de ellos

  • English

    Taking a psychosocial perspective this study analyses the com-ponents of psychological abuse in intimate adult partner violence against women. Following a review of studies on the subject the main objective that emerged was the need for a new taxonomy of psychological abuse strategies, one which should include their corresponding operational defini-tions. The proposed new classification was then evaluated by means of a Delphi study involving 32 experts from the academic and professional worlds. These experts were asked to assess the suitability of the system cat-egories and to rate the severity of the impact made by each of the strategies on the global phenomenon of psychological abuse in couples. The results show that the experts ratified the new classification of strategies and the corresponding operational definitions, thereby endorsing their content and construct validity. When rating the strategies according to the severity of their impact, those of an emotional nature were considered the most se-vere, followed by those related to the immediate context, those of a cogni-tive nature and, finally, behavioural strategies. We discuss the results and their implications

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