Capacidad para el afrontamiento de situaciones estresantes de los penados por violencia de género en la fase de ingreso

Resumo

Socio-cognitive competence is described as the individual’s ability to use personal and environmental resources to facilitate normalized behaviour. Though there is no consensually agreed taxonomy defining the relevant skills, it is widely accepted that cognitive competence consists of problems solving and other skills. Moreover, the level of cognitive competence appears to be related to the degree of antisocial and delinquent behaviour. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the coping strategies used by convicted male intimate-partner violence (IPV) offenders before entering prison, which is a stressful context that may trigger further gender violence. A field study was undertaken to assess a total of 250 male detainees sentenced for gender violence, who were admitted to a prison treatment programme. The results reveal that IPV offenders cope with stressful problems and situaciones conducive to gender violence by employing desadaptative coping strategies, which are characterisitic of social incompetence and associated to antisocial and delinquent behaviour.