El impacto psicosocial de la violencia doméstica en las familias del cantón Nabón provincia del Azuay en confinamiento debido al covid-19 (marzo hasta septiembre).

Abstract

This research was aimed at registering and identifying the psychosocial effects that occurred with regard to intrafamily violence, the types of violence and the most susceptible members within the family during the social isolation decreed by the national government of Ecuador between the months March 2020 until September of the same year in order to stop the spread of the pandemic due to the COVID-19 virus. This period radically marked society as it achieved abrupt changes, causing a pause in the economic, social, cultural, political, and health system, affecting social ties, especially intra-family ones. Within this research, an exhaustive bibliographic search was carried out in which, through different sociological, psychological, and psychoanalytic theories, the phenomenon of violence and manifestations in a context of confinement will be explained, in families with a predisposition to domestic violence that could exist by forcing a constantly violated person to remain in an extensive confinement with his aggressor and how this influences family relationships. For the present work, the qualitative methodology was used, and the applied method was the abductive one. For this, the empirical data collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews were used. The conclusions showed that domestic violence existed before the pandemic and that it intensified during social isolation. One of the very important factors for the unleashing of the acts of violence was the economic factor, the loss of work or job instability that maintained a constant state of tension between the family nucleus and its members. The type of violence with the highest incidence was psychological, since in most violent acts threats, insults and phrases were used to minimize the victim. The members most susceptible to violence within the family were the youngest or youngest.