Meaning and influences of domestic violence: feelings reflected by women in the state of violence

Abstract

Objective: Identify feelings of women victims of domestic violence. Method: This was an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative approach developed in August 2011, in a women's police station, with 08 women who denounced the violence. We used the workshop to produce the data through semi-structured interviews, which were recorded and transcribed for analysis according to the analysis thematic category. Only after approval of the ethics committee and research under protocol number: 0078.0.405.000-11, this research was operationalized. Results: The results show that women are vulnerable to violence as a matter of socially constructed that it is inferior to males should be submissive and obey him. Conclusion: Women victims of violence express feelings of anxiety, shame and disbelief, and hope in order to continue despite all the abuse and violence suffered.