Emotional dependence, depression and anxiety in women victims of violence

Abstract

This research aimed to demonstrate that in women victims of violence, there is a level of significant relationship between three psychopathological disorders: emotional dependence, depression and anxiety disorders. As a method, it has been used the processing of variables through structural equations (bivariate analysis), obtained from the application of the Emotional Dependence Inventory - EDI, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), in victims whose cases were reported in the Legal Medicine Institute of Nuevo Chimbote (2019), Ancash. As a result, it was observed evidence of solid and reliable scales that show a positive link between the constants: emotional dependence, depression and anxiety, noting a correlation of 0.58 (p=0.000<0.05), between emotional dependence - depression and 0.86 (p=0.000<0.05), between emotional dependence - anxiety.

Keywords: emotional dependence; depression; anxiety; violence.