Quando a vida ensina a ser resiliente: um estudo sobre mulheres vítimas de violência no município de João Pessoa- PB

Abstract

The present study is inserted in the debate on violence against women and the development of their capacity to release of this situation of oppression. The research aimed to understand the resilience capacity of women victims of domestic violence attended by the Women's Reference Center in the city of João Pessoa-PB. Violence against women was considered in this study a phenomenon present in all areas of society, independent of social classes, constituting a structural factor that emerges from a historical construction of models of society that subalternates the feminine condition. The resilience concept is understood as an individual capacity to confront and re-signify adverse situations in view of subjective well-being. It is configured, therefore, as a capacity learned within a complex and dynamic social processes that mobilize resistance to the destruction of Being and the strengthening of the person. It was registered in this study that resilience is triggered in the process of violence experienced by women and is shown as indispensable for coping with it, also the emotions of surprise, fear and anger. This is a qualitative research of phenomenological nature, conducted through guided interviews with women victims of violence. The research highlighted the interlocutions of Gonsalves (2015), Beauvoir (1980), Bisquerra (2000), Libâneo (2001), Mira y López (2012) Atanné (2011), Treiner (2011), Saffioti (1976) and Freire (1979). At the end of the research it was possible to affirm that when facing situations of violence, the woman develops the resilient capacity, allied with the emotions of surprise, fear and anger. Such emotions contribute to coping the situation of oppression, activating subjective internal mechanisms of emotional order that collaborate so that the woman became the protagonist of her life, promoting the social changes that guarantee their release, consequently, a significant improvement in women quality of life.