Attributional styles and communication strategies in women with and without experience of psychological abuse

Abstract

Between 25 and 54 years, with an educational level: In this research the relationship between attributional style and communication strategies, 204 women in 39% and 61% with no experience of physical or psychological abuse, the vast majority are examined secondary later, with independent work or dependent and more than three years cohabiting with your partner. To do this, they administered the Attributional Style Questionnaire Peterson and colleagues. (12 situations with questions to measure dimensions of Causality, and Stability Internality); Questionnaire on Assertion Couple (Form A) of Carrasco (10 situations recojen representative aspects of the life of a couple, to evaluate communication strategies Assertion, Aggression, Submission and Battery-Passive); Inventory and Psychological Abuse in intimate relationships, Calvete, Corral and Estevez adapted Saltzman (17 items related to 17 categories of emotional abuse). Using a descriptive-comparative study statistically significant differences in the use of an optimistic explanatory style and assertive communication strategies for women in the control group, from children’s villages in the Municipality of Lima and pessimistic attributional style and strategies was found submissive for the victims of both physical violence and psychological, from Women’s Emergency Centers of the Ministry of women and vulnerable populations communication.