The aim of this study is to investigate individual experience of physiological abuse during their childhood. Our method was to read three autobiographies and one biography to interpret the impact of the psychological abuse in these four individuals. The empirical material in this qualitative study aims to determine how the writer's experienced psychological abuse within their childhood. and how it´s affected their lives in adulthood. It´s specifically aimed at coping strategies and their impact on life after the abuse, also authorities support or absence around their upbringing in malpractice. This study wraps up by using coping theory together with shame and guilt in order to analyze our results from all four life stories in the biographies. The main findings of this study are that all abused children had fear and silence as a recurring theme throughout their stories. Another finding is that each individual uses different forms of coping strategies and some even used more than one.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-100657 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Galonja, Philippa, Mackenhauer, Martina |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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