"Det är inte så lätt som folk tror" - En kvalitativ studie om kvinnors uppbrott- och exitprocesser
(2025) SOPB63 20242School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Being a woman living in an abusive relationship is tearing but leaving your abuser is a difficult and complex process. Although intimate partner violence and men's violence against women have received increased research attention, the process of leaving your abuser and what happens after that has received less attention. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how women who have left an abusive relationship describe their process of breaking up and creating a new role for themselves, an ex-role, and in what ways others have had an impact on their process. The method chosen for this study was a qualitative content analysis of ten Swedish women who told their stories in different podcasts. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh’s theory of becoming an Ex... (More)
- Being a woman living in an abusive relationship is tearing but leaving your abuser is a difficult and complex process. Although intimate partner violence and men's violence against women have received increased research attention, the process of leaving your abuser and what happens after that has received less attention. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how women who have left an abusive relationship describe their process of breaking up and creating a new role for themselves, an ex-role, and in what ways others have had an impact on their process. The method chosen for this study was a qualitative content analysis of ten Swedish women who told their stories in different podcasts. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh’s theory of becoming an Ex combined with Viveka Enander and Carin Holmberg's understanding of the process of breaking up was applied in the analysis of our result and made it possible for us to illustrate the complex process that is leaving and creating a new role. Although we found that the process of every woman differentiated from each other we also found some similarities in their stories. This study found that the physical breaking up and other people’s impact in that situation played an important part in the stories of the women. This study also found that creating a new ex-role was a complex process in which the women encountered difficulties they had not anticipated. Furthermore, this study found that the process often does not reach an end after the woman has left an abusive relationship and instead becomes a continuing process of navigating life and her ex-role in every new aspect of her life. (Less)
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- author
- Bäckgren Lundberg, Signe LU and Szente, Sandra LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPB63 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- leaving an abusive relationship, the process of breaking up, the process of leaving, the process of becoming an ex, the exit process
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9181297
- date added to LUP
- 2025-01-23 15:42:52
- date last changed
- 2025-01-23 15:42:52
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abstract = {{Being a woman living in an abusive relationship is tearing but leaving your abuser is a difficult and complex process. Although intimate partner violence and men's violence against women have received increased research attention, the process of leaving your abuser and what happens after that has received less attention. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how women who have left an abusive relationship describe their process of breaking up and creating a new role for themselves, an ex-role, and in what ways others have had an impact on their process. The method chosen for this study was a qualitative content analysis of ten Swedish women who told their stories in different podcasts. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh’s theory of becoming an Ex combined with Viveka Enander and Carin Holmberg's understanding of the process of breaking up was applied in the analysis of our result and made it possible for us to illustrate the complex process that is leaving and creating a new role. Although we found that the process of every woman differentiated from each other we also found some similarities in their stories. This study found that the physical breaking up and other people’s impact in that situation played an important part in the stories of the women. This study also found that creating a new ex-role was a complex process in which the women encountered difficulties they had not anticipated. Furthermore, this study found that the process often does not reach an end after the woman has left an abusive relationship and instead becomes a continuing process of navigating life and her ex-role in every new aspect of her life.}},
author = {{Bäckgren Lundberg, Signe and Szente, Sandra}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Det är inte så lätt som folk tror" - En kvalitativ studie om kvinnors uppbrott- och exitprocesser}},
year = {{2025}},
}