Dependencia emocional y violencia en mujeres atendidas en la Fundación Nosotras con Equidad, de Riobamba

Introduction: violence is a psychosocial phenomenon, considered a public health problem that generates serious consequences for women. Emotional dependence could be an important factor for a woman to tolerate situations of violence. Objective: to determine the relationship between emotional dependence and violence in women attended at the Fundación Nosotras con Equidad, of Riobamba, Ecuador. Materials and methods: an observational, prospective, cross-sectional, analytical, bivariate and relational study was conducted in a population of 300 women aged 18 to 65 years from the Fundación Nosotras con Equidad, of Riobamba, during the first semester of 2020. The IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0 program was used for processing emotional dependence and violence data; for statistical-descriptive analysis, grouped bar graphs, and for bivariate analysis, the correlation coefficient tau-b of Kendall. Results: it was shown that 237 women had moderate emotional dependence (79.0%) and 279 reported that they had suffered severe partner violence (93.0%). The correlation between emotional dependence and psychological violence is average positive (0.473). Conclusions: high levels of emotional dependence were found in women victims of violence and an average positive correlation between psychological violence and emotional dependence was evident. In the variable of emotional dependence, the fear of loneliness, of being abandoned, was observed as relevant indicators, which represents a form of rejection of their self-esteem, remaining immersed in a violent relationship.