Autoestima en mujeres victimas de violencia sexual en el conflicto armado Colombiano.

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze the self-esteem of women victims of sexual violence in the Colombian armed conflict through a qualitative investigation that allows the construction of a tool for women assigned to the victims' table of the municipal mayor of Pamplona, suggesting strategies to encourage self-esteem through psychoeducational activities that increase their self-esteem. In order to fulfill the objective, set, a population of 8 women was approached. To which three (3) techniques were applied for the collection of semi-structured interview information, focus group and non-participant observation. According to the above, it was found as a result of the present investigation that there is a significant relationship between the categories of self-esteem and sexual violence, it is worth mentioning that the relationship found is characterized by being negative, that is, the acts of sexual violence suffered by The sample has had an unfavorable impact on their self-esteem, generating perceptions of vulnerability and insecurity. This relationship results in the emergence of an emerging category which was cataloged as resilience. Resilience is defined by Gonzales (2005) as the fact of rebounding from difficult experiences. Among the particularities that were evidenced in the sample, women are perceived that have motivation to achieve, feelings of hope, desire to overcome and leave behind that painful past that marked their lives in a negative way, characteristics that occur in women who have developed Resilience from their bad experiences.