[ Le vécu anxieux de l’adolescent camerounais exposé à la violence conjugale au Cameroun ]
Volume 41, Issue 4, February 2024, Pages 1051–1057
Tabue Defo Fabrice Rocard1
1 Doctorant en psychopathologie et clinique, Département de Psychologie, Université de Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Adolescent exposure to marital violence is also an anxiety-inducing situation like any other negative life event. This exposure constitutes, among other things, the most significant anxiety-provoking situations among the various victims. The literature shows us that anxiety among adolescents increases as marital violence persists. This increase is due to the adolescence period which is marked by a quest for identity. This study aims to study the psychological factors that organize the anxious experience among adolescents exposed to marital violence. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with three adolescents exposed to marital violence. The results obtained reveal that in adolescents exposed to marital violence, the adolescent’s life is marked by the feeling of losing the mother following the various injuries. This will create different behavior in the subject (fear, sadness, worry, stress and anxiety). This behavior will now generate anxiety in them and in this case, the psychological system will be invaded by psychological vulnerability, psychosocial stress and imagination focused on acts of violence.
Author Keywords: Marital violence, anxious experience, adolescent, Cameroonian.
Volume 41, Issue 4, February 2024, Pages 1051–1057
Tabue Defo Fabrice Rocard1
1 Doctorant en psychopathologie et clinique, Département de Psychologie, Université de Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Adolescent exposure to marital violence is also an anxiety-inducing situation like any other negative life event. This exposure constitutes, among other things, the most significant anxiety-provoking situations among the various victims. The literature shows us that anxiety among adolescents increases as marital violence persists. This increase is due to the adolescence period which is marked by a quest for identity. This study aims to study the psychological factors that organize the anxious experience among adolescents exposed to marital violence. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with three adolescents exposed to marital violence. The results obtained reveal that in adolescents exposed to marital violence, the adolescent’s life is marked by the feeling of losing the mother following the various injuries. This will create different behavior in the subject (fear, sadness, worry, stress and anxiety). This behavior will now generate anxiety in them and in this case, the psychological system will be invaded by psychological vulnerability, psychosocial stress and imagination focused on acts of violence.
Author Keywords: Marital violence, anxious experience, adolescent, Cameroonian.
Abstract: (french)
L’exposition des adolescents à la violence conjugale est également une situation anxieuse comme tout autre événement de vie négatif. Cette exposition constitue entre autres des situations anxiogènes les plus importantes chez les différentes victimes. La littérature nous fait constater que, l’anxiété chez les adolescents augmente autant que les violences conjugales perdurent. Cette augmentation est due à la période d’adolescence qui est marquée d’une quête d’identité. Cette étude se donne pour objectif d’étudier les facteurs psychiques qui organise le vécu anxieux chez les adolescents exposés à la violence conjugale. Nous avont fait recours à la méthode clinique comme méthode de recherche. Les données ont été collectées par l’entremise des entretiens semi-directifs auprès de trois adolescents exposés à la violence conjugale. Les résultats obtenus révèlent que chez l’adolescent exposé à la violence conjugale, la vie de l’adolescent est marquée par la sensation de perdre la mère suite aux différentes blessures. Ce qui va créer chez le sujet un comportement différent (peur, tristesse, inquiétude, stress et angoisse). Ce désormais comportement va engendrer en eux de l’anxiété et dans ce cas, l’appareil psychique va être envahi par une vulnérabilité psychologique, un stress psychosocial et un imaginaire axé sur les actes de violences.
Author Keywords: Violence conjugale, vécu anxieux, adolescent, camerounais.
How to Cite this Article
Tabue Defo Fabrice Rocard, “The anxious experience of the Cameroonian adolescent exposed to domestic violence in Cameroon,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1051–1057, February 2024.
