Performing identity’

A narrative analysis of young people’s talk of intimate partner violence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12625762
AutoresAdele Marais (0000-0002-8439-1939, University of Cape Town, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas242-263
Data de publicação2015-12-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNarrative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1387-6740 • E-ISSN: 1569-9935
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ni.25.2.03mar
OpenAlexW2472262832
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas28

This study examined the issue of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) from the perspective of young adults. The focus was on how participants actively imparted meaning to themselves and others, and how they constructed and performed their identities through the situated interaction of the research interview. Students at the University of Cape Town (ages 18–25), were invited to participate in unstructured individual interviews and/or focus groups about IPV and intimate relationships. A total of 24 young adults volunteered to participate. The results revealed that young people are knowledgeable and concerned about IPV. Participants underscored the importance, intensity and timing of intimate relationships in their lives- and signaled its significance and consequence for their current identity projects. Female participants had specific investments in how their talk achieved selfpresentation goals: they used their narratives as a resource to account for their experiences, negotiate and present their preferred identities, and manage their reputations

Aesthetics · Domestic violence · Focus group · Identity (music · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical · Poison control · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Visual arts · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology