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Loving Them Was Red: A Qualitative Analysis on Why Young Adult Women Chose to Stay in a Toxic Relationship

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Eule Adrianne Aquino , April Joyce DelaCruz , Rowena Huerto , Gloria Marie Lintuco , Jorgen Mikhaela Mendoza , Jessa May Obing , Kate Annedre Padilla , Hianny Andrea Sanchez , Drinnie Angeline Tutanes , Hardie Gieben Cruz
Psych Educ Multidisc J, 2024, 25 (3), 498-507, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13773244, ISSN 2822-4353
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Abstract

Young Filipino women are susceptible to engaging in toxic relationships. The socio-cultural development maintained throughout the years of conservative ideology in the Philippines has retained a hostile dynamic towards women, specifically in the intimate connection they share with their given sex. The researchers aim to explore traditional perspectives and the hierarchy of gender roles that contribute to the abuse of young women in the National Capital Region (NCR) of the Philippines. Correspondingly, using a phenomenological approach, six (6) young Filipino women aged eighteen to twenty-five years (18-25) were gathered using the purposive sampling technique and then interviewed with a validated research tool. The findings showed a prevalence of social influences, expectations, tolerance, and manipulation as leading causes for remaining in a toxic relationship; all women engaged in specific coping mechanisms towards their partner to extend their connection. Identity and autonomy diminished throughout the relationships, with separation and a re-evaluation of self-worth being the process of healing. Significantly, their experience was unfortunate, yet they expressed that abuse is one of the means to maintain the established gender role of young Filipino women. Nevertheless, support groups and other coping strategies should persevere for life after the toxic relationship.

Keywords abuse toxic relationship, young women,
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10 authors, 1 institution.

This paper Jose Rizal University — Philippines Jose Rizal University 10 authors Eule Adrianne Aquino — corresponding author EA Eule Adrianne Aquino ✉ April Joyce DelaCruz AD April Joyce DelaCruz Rowena Huerto RH Rowena Huerto Gloria Marie Lintuco GL Gloria Marie Lintuco Jorgen Mikhaela Mendoza JM Jorgen Mikhaela Mendoza Jessa May Obing JO Jessa May Obing Kate Annedre Padilla KP Kate Annedre Padilla Hianny Andrea Sanchez HS Hianny Andrea Sanchez Drinnie Angeline Tutanes DT Drinnie Angeline Tutanes Hardie Gieben Cruz HC Hardie Gieben Cruz

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Bibliographic Information

Eule Adrianne Aquino, April Joyce DelaCruz, Rowena Huerto, Gloria Marie Lintuco, Jorgen Mikhaela Mendoza, Jessa May Obing, Kate Annedre Padilla, Hianny Andrea Sanchez, Drinnie Angeline Tutanes, Hardie Gieben Cruz, (2024). Loving Them Was Red: A Qualitative Analysis on Why Young Adult Women Chose to Stay in a Toxic Relationship, Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25(3): 498-507
Bibtex Citation
@article{eule_adrianne_aquino2024pemj,
author = {Eule Adrianne Aquino and April Joyce DelaCruz and Rowena Huerto and Gloria Marie Lintuco and Jorgen Mikhaela Mendoza and Jessa May Obing and Kate Annedre Padilla and Hianny Andrea Sanchez and Drinnie Angeline Tutanes and Hardie Gieben Cruz},
title = {Loving Them Was Red: A Qualitative Analysis on Why Young Adult Women Chose to Stay in a Toxic Relationship},
journal = {Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal},
year = {2024},
volume = {25},
number = {3},
pages = {498-507},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.13773244},
url = {https://scimatic.org/show_manuscript/3601}
}
APA Citation
Aquino, E.A., DelaCruz, A.J., Huerto, R., Lintuco, G.M., Mendoza, J.M., Obing, J.M., Padilla, K.A., Sanchez, H.A., Tutanes, D.A., Cruz, H.G., (2024). Loving Them Was Red: A Qualitative Analysis on Why Young Adult Women Chose to Stay in a Toxic Relationship. Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25(3), 498-507. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13773244

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