Representaciones sociales de madres con hijos de ambos sexos abusado sexualmente por un familiar o conocido cercano
Lautaro Barriga C^1a, Magdalena Correa P¹, Dominga Figueroa E¹.
¹ Servicio de Salud Mental Infantil y de la Adolescencia de un Hospital Público de Santiago de Chile.
^1a Psicólogo, Magister en Psicología Clínica.

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This study presents the results of a qualitative research whose objective was to reconstruct the social representations of intrafamilial sexual abuse of adult women living in two municipalities of the Metropolitan Region, Chile. We interviewed 52 adult women: mothers with children sexually abused by a family member or close acquaintance, childless women and women with children without being abused. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed according to the

methodological procedures formulated by Glaser and Strauss in empirically grounded theory. The results section includes a descriptive analysis of the data collected, from which emerge four categories: contextual history, gender history, experiences of sexual history and reaction to the unveiling of abuse suffered by a minor; Relational Analysis between the background and reaction, and finally an Interpretive hypothetical model which explains the factors associated with domestic abuse in adult women.

Key Words: Social representations, theory founded empirically, adult women, children sexually abused by family.