Micromachismo en las relaciones de pareja. Estudio realizado con jóvenes universitarios de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The present investigation is entitled "Micromachismo in couple relationships. Study carried out with young university students from the city of Guayaquil. Micromachismo is subtle violence in the couple, they are also behaviors of superiority and dominance of men towards women, in society these discriminatory behaviors have been naturalized, they generally go unnoticed for women as for men, currently they are latent for sublime messages in social, labor, legal and family fields. The objective of this research is to understand how the young university students of the city of Guayaquil perceive micromachismo in couple relationships in order to build new preventive strategies of violence against women, the methodology of this study is mixed approach, The multi-method method is the union of the qualitative and quantitative approach of a descriptive level and type of applied research, the instruments validated in other investigations were used, such as the Micromachismo Scale taken from Torralba - Borrego, A.; Garrido - Hernansaiz, a non-probabilistic convenience sampling was applied to the participants, aged 18 to 29 years. Two focus groups aimed at the same population mentioned with the total number of students from the Faculty of Social Sciences and students from Faculties of Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences. In conclusion, through the results found in university couple relationships, verbal, psychological, economic, physical and symbolic practices of the micromachismo typology were found: covert, coercive, crisis and utilitarian.