Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 22 Issue 6

In the above cognem tree, A priori concepts such as beliefs, norms and constructs about romantic love , and emergent concepts such as Love of (in the context of) conquest and of details, a stage and the idealization can be seen in both focus groups (of men and women), while the indicator of suffering love, and a the necessity of love, emerged only in the focus groups of women, which were not associated with any other within the cognem tree. In the case of myths, the A priori indicators, were : the love myths scale (some of its items), information about romantic love myths, and myths and their importance in couple relationships . The emerging indicators were: Unconditional love, the better half, eternal love, omnipotent love, Prince Charming, women should have a passive role and men active roles within couple-relationships and, the media transmitting what romantic love is, all of them, present within the focus groups of both men and women, While in the women's focus groups, necessity and the hierarchy of its members emerged, which were not associated with any other indicator present, the indicator of unconditional love also emerged, which was related to that of omnipotent love. In the case of gender roles and stereotypes in couple relationships, the A priori indicators were: beliefs about competencies, capacities, emotions, behaviors, behaviors and attitudes designated by society to each person according to their sex in couple relationships , which at the time of conducting the focus groups and analyzing their grid, resulted in these new indicators: Men have the active role and women the passive role within couple relationships, and men belong to the public sphere while women belong to the private sphere, (both emerged in the focus groups of both men and women). With respect to VAW and the open-ended question that was asked, it can be seen that among the concepts of VAW that were obtained from the questionnaires, 40% mentioned in their answers the types of VAW that exist, 21% spoke of VAW as an exercise of power, 13% did not answer the question, 9% gave different attributions to VAW, 7% mentioned gender roles and stereotypes related to VAW, 6% spoke about the rationalization of VAW, 5% spoke about the naturalization of VAW, 5% spoke about the naturalization of VAW, and 13% did not answer the question, 9% gave different attributions to VAW, 7% mentioned gender roles and stereotypes related to VAW, 6% talked about the rationalization of VAW, 5% talked about the naturalization of VAW and the sociocultural context, and 0% (1) gave answers out of context (see Table 3). Table 3: Frequency and Percentage of responses to the question: What do you consider VAW to be? Types Attribu- tions Exercise of power No response Out of context Normalization and socio- cultural context Gender roles and stereotypes Rationalization of VAW 121 28 65 38 1 14 20 17 40% 9% 21% 13% 0% 5% 7% 6% Source: Own elaboration Regarding the question "What do you consider to be VAW? By sex, the answers provided in the questionnaire, the highest percentage is found in people who mentioned the types of VAW, with 38% in men and 40% in women followed by the exercise of power, with 26% in men and 20% in women, people who did not respond with 14. 9% in men and 12% in men, attributions to VAW with 6.8% in men and 10% in women, gender roles and stereotypes with 4.1% in men and 5% in women and finally responses out of context, with 0% in men and women (see Table 4). Table 4: Frequency and Percentage of responses to the question: What do you consider to be VAW? by gender Types Attribu- tions Exercise of power No response Out of context Normalization and socio- cultural context Gender roles and stereo- types Rationaliza- tion of VAW Man 28 5 19 11 0 2 3 6 38% 7% 26% 15% 0% 3% 4% 8% Woman 93 23 46 27 1 12 17 11 40% 10% 20% 12% 0% 5% 7% 5% Source: Own elaboration V. D iscussion It should be noted that, in the process of this research, numerous approaches and theoretical models have been reviewed in order to address the issues raised, however, some of these are not decisive or the only conclusive ones to understand the complex dynamics in which romantic love and VAW unfold, such as the theory of Intergenerational Transmission of Violence by O'Leary (1988), which affirms the existence of a link between people's past and current violence in their relationships, i.e., if they had a past with violence, © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue VI Version I 15 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 C Romantic Love and Violence against Women from a Gender Approach