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Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27563 Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships Timm, Victoria Margaret shaylenemills@gmail.com Mills, Shaylene Narrative research Three-dimensional space approach Postmodernist Qualitative research Intimate partner violence (IPV) Abuse Survivor UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the stories of women who have been trapped in abusive relationships (victims of intimate partner violence (IPV)) and the process of how they moved on from these relationships to non-abusive relationships, thereby becoming survivors. The primary research question guiding the study is; How do the women describe their experiences of the processes that they underwent in leaving an abusive relationship and entering into a new, non-abusive, relationship? The study generates a rich description of their experiences, exploring what it is that makes these women unique in changing their identities from victim of abuse to survivor. This is done by taking an in-depth look at each participant’s story and uncovering the personal meanings that they ascribed to these experiences. Literature from past studies is also explored as various authors describe IPV, factors related to IPV and how their illustrations coincide or differ from the findings of this study. A narrative research approach is used in this study. Narrative research falls under the umbrella of postmodernism and is conducted with a social constructionist outlook. The narrative approach views knowledge as generated by exploring subjective experience and how the individual makes meaning with emphasis on context. This study, therefore, focuses on how the participant’s identities are constructed over time as a result of making meaning from their experiences, through self-exploration, social processes and through interactions with others. Data was gathered by means of semi-structured interviews. The tool used for analysis of the stories was the Three-Dimensional Space Approach, the specific tools being; analysis of situation, interaction and continuity. This approach allows for the data to be analysed, not as a given truth but rather, as meaning is generated from the unique perspective of each individual participant in the context, as well as how it was interpreted by myself, the researcher. The results explore this process through the themes of a message from each participant: commitment as it preceded the abuse, identity, control and manipulation at the hands of the perpetrator, and everyone needs someone to help. These themes were then integrated with the literature. Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:47:01Z 2013-08-27 2013-09-07T11:47:01Z 2013-04-11 2013-08-27 2013-08-26 Dissertation Mills, S 2013, Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27563 > F13/4/772/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27563 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08262013-150448/ © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Narrative research Three-dimensional space approach Postmodernist Qualitative research Intimate partner violence (IPV) Abuse Survivor UCTD Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships |
| title | Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships |
| title_full | Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships |
| title_fullStr | Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships |
| title_short | Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships |
| title_sort | exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non abusive relationships |
| topic | Narrative research Three-dimensional space approach Postmodernist Qualitative research Intimate partner violence (IPV) Abuse Survivor UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27563 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08262013-150448/ |