Forbidden Love, Gender, and Domestic Violence

Women College Students' Experience during Covid-19 Pandemic

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ID6891687
AuthorsAyşegül Bakir (corresponding author), Özlem Haskan Avci, Özlem Haskan Avcı (0000-0003-4903-6584)
Year2025
Volume66
Issue1
Pages85-101
Publication date2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of college student development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0897-5264 • E-ISSN: 1543-3382
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/csd.2025.a951530
OpenAlexW4407584902
LanguageEN
Citations received2

There are many informal rules regarding women's premarital relationships in Turkey and Islamic cultures in general. It is an unspoken rule that Turkish families disapprove of their daughters' dating. We explored women's experiences hiding their romantic relationships from their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included nine Turkish women college students aged 19–26 years. The participants who returned home after transitioning to distance education experienced more gender-based stress. They feared domestic violence and forced marriage. Some of them experienced various forms of domestic violence. Negative consequences of hiding included cognitive dissonance due to lying to their families, cognitive load, hiding dating violence, and not getting social support from their families. In addition, lying could lead to double living and creating two separate selves. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey has made gender inequalities within families more visible

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Domestic violence · Higher education · Medical emergency · Pandemic · Poison control · Political science · Suicide prevention · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Virology

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