'n Kwalitatiewe ondersoek na huweliksgeweld teenoor wit Suid-Afrikaanse mans

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation looks at husbands as victims of family violence at the hands of theirspouses. Four white Afrikaans speaking persons from Pretoria were interviewed in casestudies focusing on the problem of husband abuse. During the interviews use was made ofan interview schedule based on contemporary theoretical explanations for thephenomenon. Three of the participants were white males who elaborated on their ownexperiences as victims of marital violence. A fourth participant was a white female whoelaborated on her father's experiences as a victim of marital violence.The taped recordings of the interviews were transcribed and a data set developed by usingAtlasTi. The data set was used to construct the social worlds of men as victims of maritalviolence by focusing on eight categories: definitions of violence, frequency of violence,causes of violence, violent insidents, effects of violence, disintegration of the relationship,remaining in a violent relationship and men and women's propensity for violence.The data set was further used to examine the contemporary theoretical explanations forfamily violence at the micro, meso and macro levels. Regarding the micro level constructs,there seems to be application value for the psychobiological and psychodynamicperspectives. The victim theory does not seem to have much apllication value.With regard to the meso level constructs, it seems as if stress theory and traumatic bondingtheory, exchange/social control theory and social learning theory may be useful inexplaining marital violence. Power theory and resource theory, in an amended form, mayalso be of value. The application of conflict theory seems problematic since it is not clearwhether violence leads to isolation or vice versa. Regarding the macro level analysis, it seems as though the culture of violence theory andthe subculture of violence theory have strong application value. General systems theory isdifficult to apply, but theoretically specific questions to the participants brought to light thatsupport networks for male victims are inadequate or even absent. The patriarchal feministtheory seems to have no apllication value seeing that three of the main assumptions of thistheory collapsed.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University