Good Women, Martyrs, and Survivors

A Theoretical Framework for South Asian Women's Responses to Partner Violence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12435554
AutoresParvani Pinnewala (Macquarie University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume15
Fascículo1
Páginas81-105
Data de publicação2008-11-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801208328005
PMID19015391
OpenAlexW2167912398
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas19

This article analyzes select psychological and social models to provide a new theoretical framework for South Asian women subjected to partner violence. It focuses on women's help-seeking behaviors and efforts to end violence. Analysis of the stress-coping paradigm, the ecological model, and the transtheoretical approach indicates the possibility of integrating their core constructs of cognitive, contextual, and process elements to provide a culturally relevant model for South Asia. Each model is reviewed from a Sri Lankan clinical perspective to discuss its relevance to South Asian women's experience with, and responses to, violence. This initial theoretical framework will need to undergo further comprehensive theorizing and rigorous empirical testing in different South Asian countries to assess its validity

Behavior change · Coping (psychology · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Relevance (law · Social cognitive theory · Transtheoretical model · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Clinical Psychology · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology