Abstract:

The article presents the results of an empirical study that made it possible to analyze the frequency of use by women of emotional and psychological violence against men, the intensity of its impact on the emotional sphere of men who are and are not legally married. The study involved 37 men aged 22 to 36 years old (23 of them were married – officially registered family relations, 14 were not officially married, but share residence) who turned for advice to “Sverkh Ya” psycho-logopedic center, the city of Tula. The study lasted for five years since 2016 to 2020. According to the analysis of the literature it is noted that the problem of violence against men in the family is insufficiently developed, and that the research in Russian psychological works is fragmented. It is highlighted that there is the need to study the influence of the frequency and intensity of the impact of violence on the emotional sphere of men, including the differences in such influence on men who are and are not in official (marital) relationships. A structured interview with men was conducted to study the forms of violence (emotional and / or psychological), their differentiation, to assess the intensity and the degree of negative impact on the emotional sphere of men. During the interview the respondents were asked to describe in writing the forms of emotional and psychological abuse the victims of which they are, providing a differentiated assessment in points. The content analysis of the respondents’ text responses made it possible to single out 9 phrases which are the statements of manifestations of emotional violence and 8 statements related to psychological violence. The use of the methods of mathematical statistics - Spearman correlation analysis and the Mann-Whitney criterion made it possible to identify the prevailing forms of violence, assess their intensity and the degree of impact on the emotional sphere of men who are and are not in official (marital) relationships.

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