Las mujeres de mi casa: Proyecto de investigación sobre la relación entre la violencia de género contra las mujeres de Quito y las disonancias cognitivas

Abstract

The interest of the research is to identify the relationship between gender violence against women and cognitive dissonance. The cognitive-behavioral perspective is taken as a starting point in relation to the psychosocial perspective that influences women and the psychosocial effects that are generated. Gender violence against women is a phenomenon reproduced by the culture that indexes women's rights in the work, social, family and couple environments. The purpose of this research is to know its relationship with cognitive dissonance through an exploratory qualitative approach. The technique used will be the semi-structured interview and discourse analysis. Therefore, a bibliographic survey has been made about gender violence against women and cognitive dissonance, what it is and its different types. It is important to mention that cognitive dissonances are found in the different discourses of the women participating in the project. Therefore, we seek to know how these cognitive dissonances have a psychosocial impact on the behavior and subjectivity of each one of them in the social space of the house and outside it. Additionally, we seek to know the subjective, relational and social perspectives and representations according to gender violence against women through the experiences, testimonies and views of five women in the city of Quito.