Relación entre autoestima y violencia de género. Un estudio con mujeres autóctonas y migradas en territorio español

Abstract

This paper presents results of a research carried out with native and migrated women living in Spain, who currently suffer gender violence or have suffered it in the past. Study objective was to know the incidence of violence on women’s self-esteem, as well as possibilities of recovery through psychosocial support programs. Reciprocal relationship between self-esteem and gender violence is presented in this paper through a broad bibliographical review of research in which this issue is addressed. Study sample consisted of 248 women, users of several services for the care of women in Spain, who participated in a program of psychosocial intervention for victims of gender violence. The selection of the sample was intentional and the methodology applied is quantitative. The study establishes relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, type of abuse, time of exposure, coexistence between different types of violence and effects of the psychosocial intervention on self-esteem. An analysis of the variance and an analysis by segmentation whit the SPAD-N program were performed, in order to find differential results between native and migrated women. Results show that native women present greater negative burden on self-esteem than migrated women, fact that contradicts the results of other investigations.