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PERSONAL CONSTRUCT
THEORY & PRACTICE
Vol.16
2019

An Internet Journal devoted to the Psychology of Personal Constructs

 
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EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE IN THE REPERTORY GRID TECHNIQUE:
A STUDY OF DISTANCES BETWEEN ELEMENTS IN A SAMPLE OF BATTERED WOMEN



Jesús Garcia-Martínez, María Ángeles Payán-Bravo and
Rafael Moreno-Rodríguez


University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain


  



Abstract

In this study, Euclidean distance was used to analyse the construct of male-female elements and those supportive or non-supportive in a sample of battered women (N=25). The main aim was to study the differences in subjective similarity (Euclidean distance) according to different structural indexes in the repertory grid. The sample was divided into two groups using the mean as the criterion for dichotomizing groups as high-low. Symptomatology was also used as a factor for distributing the sample. Between-group differences were calculated with Student’s-t. Women in the high-polarization group considered themselves different from their partner and also from other aggressive men. Women in the low-intensity group considered themselves and their partners as different from cooperative-helpful men.  

Keywords: Euclidian distances, repertory grid technique, intimate partner violence






About the authors


Jesús Garcia-Martínez, Psychotherapist and Professor of  Psychotherapies at the School of Psychology of the University of Seville. His area of research is focused on violence, victims and stigma and the study of psychotherapeutic processes related with these kinds of cases. He has written a paper on implicative dilemmas in victims, innovative moments in group therapy. He also studies the adaptation of psychotherapy to clients with cultural diversity. He was former president of the Spanish Association of Constructivist Psychotherapy (ASEPCO) and belongs to the TAOS Institute.
Contact: jgm@us.es



MŞ Ángeles Payán-Bravo, Psychologist. Researcher at the University of Seville. Her areas of research are gender violence and stigma recovery. She works as volunteer in a non-profit making association of people suffering with severe mental disorders (ASAENES) and is preparing to train as a clinical psychologist in the Spanish Health System.




Rafael Moreno, PhD, studied Psychology at the University of Barcelona and ​​is Professor of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences at the School of Psychology at the University of Seville. He has taught courses at various different universities. His main fields of interest are the foundations of scientific methodology, seeking to advance its state as a scientific discipline, improving the validity of its notions and achieving greater structuring by identifying common principles that simplify the enormous number of concepts accumulated over decades.




Reference

Garcia-Martínez, J., Payán-Bravo, M. A., Moreno-Rodríguez, R. (2019). Euclidean distance in the repertory grid technique: a study of distances between elements in a sample of battered women.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 16
, 82-93

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ISSN 1613-5091

Last update: 10 November 2019