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Accounting for intimate partner violence: a biographical analysis of narrative strategies used by men experiencing IPV from their female partners

Corbally, Melissa orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7163-0195 (2014) Accounting for intimate partner violence: a biographical analysis of narrative strategies used by men experiencing IPV from their female partners. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30 (17). pp. 3112-3132. ISSN 1552-6518

Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious social issue which affects the medium- and long-term health outcomes of many individuals worldwide. The cost of IPV on the physical and psychological well-being of individuals, in addition to its wider economic costs in responding to abused persons, is significant. Presently, there is a lack of understanding about the nature of female-initiated IPV and how men account for their experiences of it. This study examined male victims’ life stories of their IPV experiences from their intimate partners. Using the biographical narrative interpretive method, three cases were analyzed from a social constructionist perspective to examine what narrative strategies men used to account for their experiences of being abused by their female partners. Three dominant narrative strategies were used by respondents: the fatherhood narrative, the good husband narrative, and the abuse narrative. The abuse narrative had a unique narrative form, which reflected respondents’ disassociation between their identities as men and also as abused persons. Dominant conflicting discourses of masculinity and intimate partner abuse disadvantaged men in identifying IPV and secondly in responding appropriately. This study found that men prefer to use dominant discursive identities as legitimate means from which to disclose IPV experiences. The findings from this study illustrate that broad questioning by professionals regarding fatherhood may be most helpful in promoting disclosures of IPV if this is suspected.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Biographical narrative interpretive method; Domestic abuse; Intimate Partner Violence (IPV); Masculinities
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Nursing and Human Sciences
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260514554429
Copyright Information:© 2014 The Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:20326
Deposited On:29 Oct 2015 15:36 by Fran Callaghan . Last Modified 27 Sep 2019 10:08
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