Interacciones en escenarios donde se presentan situaciones de violencia en parejas, desde los significados e interpretaciones en estudiantes de la Universidad Santo Tomás sede Bogotá

Abstract

Intimate partner violence has been a problem approached from multiple disciplines in different investigations. However, most of these focus on the understanding of the victim and the perpetrator, there are few that give importance to the experiences and responsibility of society in the face of this phenomenon that is increasingly common in the Colombian context. According to this, the research question was: How are the interactions where situations of violence in couples are presented, from the meanings and interpretations in students of the Santo Tomás University in Bogotá? this in order to understand the interactions in scenarios where situations of violence in couples occur in students of the Universidad Santo Tomás Bogotá. This research was guided by the epistemological bases of systemic constructivism and specifically in the communication theory of Watzlawick. The research question was developed through the application of qualitative strategies, such as the in-depth interview and focus groups, which were applied to active students from each campus of the University (Campus, Aquinate, Angélico and Central) of 18 to 30 years old, who in the first instance were interviewed individually and in a second group meeting, in order to carry out the focus groups. Subsequently, the process of systematizing the information obtained was carried out and the results were obtained, giving way to the discussion and conclusions of the present work Keywords: partner violence, interactions, meanings, strategies, university contexts, actors.