[Resilience, spirituality, distress and tactics for battered women's conflict resolution].
OBJECTIVE
Determining the relationship of resilience and spirituality in battered women to distress, the frequency and intensity of mistreatment and the severity of injury.


METHODS
A sample was taken of 199 women who consulted Comisarías de Familia de Medellín, Colombia (family police/counselling stations). Resilience scales (RS), spiritual perspective (SPS), SCL-90R and conflict tactics (CTS) were used. Internal consistency, correlation and main exploratory components were measured.


RESULTS
The scales revealed internal consistency. Resilience was positively correlated to spirituality (r = 0.22; p = 0.0015) and negatively correlated to total positive distress symptoms (PST) (r = -0.39; p < 0.0001), the global severity index (GSI) (r = -0.30; p = < 0.0001) and 9 dimensions of symptoms from SCL-90R.


CONCLUSIONS
The scales used were reliable and valid for measuring the variables being studied. Women with higher levels of resilience reported high levels of spirituality, a lower number of positive distress symptoms and less distress.
Jaramillo-Vélez
Diva E
DE
Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia. divajara@catios.udea.edu.co
Ospina-Muñoz
Doris E
DE
Cabarcas-Iglesias
Germán
G
Humphreys
Janice
J
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008875:Middle Aged; D029181:Spirituality; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*