Antecedentes De Violencia en La Infancia Y Repercusión Psicopatológica en Mujeres Que Han Vivido Violencia Por Sus Parejas. Estudio Exploratorio

Abstract

Traumatic experiences during the childhood may be the cause of a large psychopathological impact in the adulthood. Some researches show that suffer physical and sexual abuses in the childhood may be related to intimate partner violence. The main purpose of this research is not other that to analyse if abuse during childhood may increase the symptoms of female victims of intimate partner violence in their adulthood. It is also examined if an abused experience during the childhood could be related to with intimate partner violence. It has been studied 60 women real cases who were in a woman public support service and reported intimate partner violence (V group). The control group was 20 women real cases who went to the same service, however, reported no partner violence (NV group). The results show that suffer violence during the childhood may increase the anxiety level and PTSD's symptoms of female victims of intimate partner violence, although it would be necessary increasing the sample and using a retrospective method acting to deepen in traumatic childhood experiences in future researches.Keywords: violence, woman, partner, impact, psychopathological, abuse, childhood. RESUMENLas situaciones traumáticas vividas en la infancia pueden tener una gran repercusión psicopatológica en la vida adulta. Otros estudios han mostrado que haber vivido abuso físico o sexual en la infancia puede estar relacionado con vivir una situación de maltrato por la pareja. El objetivo principal de esta investigación fue comprobar si vivir algún tipo de violencia en la infancia puede aumentar la sintomatología de las mujeres que han sufrido violencia por sus parejas en la vida adulta. Además se exploró si la existencia de antecedentes de violencia en