Influence of psychological trauma development stage on personal characteristics in women experiencing domestic violence

Tausinova Olga Konsantinovna

Purpose: the article deals with the features of psychological trauma development on the personality traits of women who have experienced domestic violence, analyzes the features of psychological trauma. Methods: in the course of the study, we used the following methods: a clinical questionnaire for identifying and evaluating neurotic States (authors - K. K. Yakhin, D. M. Mendelevich), a test of neuropsychic adaptation (I. N. Gurvich), the V. M. Bekhterev research Institute, a symptomatic questionnaire SCL-90-R Derogatis scale, Q sorting, a thematic apperceptive questionnaire TAT. SPSS, the Mann Whitney test, was used as a statistical data processing program. Results: in the course of the study, there was a tendency for women who are at the stage of assimilation of traumatic experiences to have a high level of asthenia and neurotic depression. Women tend to avoid leadership, the topic of relationships with the opposite sex, at this stage becomes significant, but remains painted in dark tones. Women of all three groups showed an attitude to themselves, an interest in their personality, a high level of neuroticism, a desire for dependence and a tendency to avoid struggle. Conclusions: thus, we observe significant differences in the features of trauma development at different stages, which suggests that the strategy for working with these women should differ, depending on the duration of the traumatic event.

Keywords:domestic violence, psychological trauma, Psychotrauma, trauma experience, stages of traumatization, domestic violence.