Gender violence, emotional dependence and its incidence on self-esteem in mothers of students

Abstract

The current health emergency has been related to an increase in interpersonal violence and violence against women; Isolation can increase the actions of the abusers out of control, potentially increasing the vulnerability of women who suffer gender violence. Therefore, this article aims to demonstrate how gender violence and emotional dependency affect self-esteem in mothers of students from an educational institution in Lima Norte, Peru. The study is basic, non-experimental, causal cross-sectional, the sample was made up of 110 married or cohabiting mothers. The inferential test was ordinal logistic regression, from which a Pseudo R-squared value of the Nagelkerke incidence model was obtained. Determining that intimate partner violence and emotional dependence affect self-esteem in mothers by 33.5%, self-esteem in mothers by 33.3%, social self-esteem by 18.4% and self-esteem in the family or home of the mothers in 23.7%. In conclusion, by estimating the ordinal logistic regression parameters, it is determined that the independent variables genderbased violence and emotional dependence affect the self-esteem of the mothers evaluated.