Beliefs, Partner Violence and Risk of Femicide

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.2164122411061

• Palavras-chave: Creencias, violencia de pareja, feminicidio, TAR, TAP.

• Keywords: Beliefs, intimate partner violence, feminicide, ART, TAP.

• Abstract:

  Intimate partner violence, which can lead to feminicide, defined by various authors as a social relationship in which the subjectivity of the victim is lowered or even denied, who is treated as an object. The couple's relationship; It can occur at the level of courtship, free union or marriage. According to Díaz-Morfa (1998), the couple relationship is, “a long-term relationship, [...] capable of being able to endure and try to overcome the conflict [...] The couple is different from the brief relationship that only seeks immediate satisfaction. […]”. Some authors consider that, for the couple to exist, there must be beliefs about it. Beliefs are defined as the subjective probability of a relationship between the object of the belief and some other object, value, concept, or attribute (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). Due to the above, the following was reached: Problem statement 1.- What is the relationship that exists between the different types of beliefs about the couple relationship; sociodemographic variables; possibility of violence and feminicide? Even though it is low, the possibility of feminicide in the population studied is 3.4%, which must be analyzed. The results generally prove the hypotheses. The alternatives to avoid violence based on an analysis of the theory and the results are the modification of the roles assigned to men and women which must be equitable in all aspects; educate in gender equality and equity with school programs that must be part of it, from initial content to university content; modify the ideal images of couples taught in commercial media towards more realistic situations; present legal alternatives such as prompt reporting, more severe punishments and psychological, social and legal support for victims.