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"He Messed Me Up": Swedish Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-Related Partner Violence and Its Consequences Over Time

NCJ Number
229561
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 16 Issue: 2 Dated: February 2010 Pages: 207-232
Author(s)
Maria Wiklund; Eva-Britt Malmgren-Olsson; Carita Bengs; Ann Ohman
Date Published
February 2010
Length
26 pages
Annotation
This article examines the long term effects of adolescent domestic violence.
Abstract
This article illuminates two Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Interviews were conducted in a youth health center. A combination of qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis describes violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during the period of adolescence and transition into adulthood. Despite Swedish progressive public policies on men's violence against women, teenage girls are exposed to male partners' violation, a severe gendered stressor. There is a need for the development of health policy and gender-responsive interventions geared specifically toward adolescent girls. (Published Abstract)