Entre honte et culpabilité, la capacité d’être seule de la mère en présence de son enfant

Villecourt-Couchat, Isabelle; Vettimo, Delphine Scotto di

doi:10.3917/dia.219.0111

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“…Staying in a relationship marked by frustration, self-sacrifice, and the couple’s lack of retribution might lead to aggressions from the woman to her partner in violent emotional explosions [ 30 ]. This aggression is most likely to happen when the situation threatens women’s maternal identity [ 15 , 16 , 49 ].…”

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“…The process of motherhood implies developing a new identity for women. This new identity demands an emotional process, in which can appear anxiety, fear, shame, and thoughts of inability to take care of a child until the woman recognizes herself as an empowered mother [ 15 , 16 ]. Perpetrators take advantage of the mother’s identity as a caregiver, her relationship with the children, and her desire to protect them as a way to victimize her [ 17 ].…”

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Women Facing Psychological Abuse: How Do They Respond to Maternal Identity Humiliation and Body Shaming?

Martínez–González

Pérez-Pedraza

Alfaro-Álvarez

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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This research analyzes the decisions made by women facing simulated situations of psychological abuse. Seventy-three women (36.9 ± 13.6 years) who had been victims of domestic violence participated. The analysis was based on their coping strategies, early maladaptive schemes, and their decisions in response to vignettes describing the following domestic violence situations: humiliation to women’s maternal identity with children as witnesses and body shaming. We used Student’s t and Mann–Whitney tests to compare the results between groups. The participants presented some coping strategies (social support seeking, wishful thinking, and professional support seeking) and several early maladaptive schemes (emotional deprivation, defectiveness/shame, social isolation/alienation, failure to achieve, attachment, and subjugation) associated with their reactions facing a situation of humiliation with children as witnesses. When the humiliation was against the body image, their reactions were associated with some coping strategies (wishful thinking, professional support seeking, autonomy, negative auto-focus coping, and positive reappraisal) and one maladaptive scheme (defectiveness/shame). Women who reacted avoidantly showed higher social and professional support seeking but experienced higher indicators of discomfort and deterioration of self-esteem than those who opted for assertive decisions. The presence of children as witnesses seems to be a factor of stress in the configuration of coping strategies and maladaptive schemes in female victims of domestic violence. The evolution of early maladaptive schemes and coping strategies requires observation to avoid the risk of isolation and permanence in victimizing relationships.

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