Rysunek rodziny w percepcji żon doświadczających przemocy i żon niedoświadczających przemocy

The main issue of the presented paper concerns the perception of marriage by wives who experienced violence from their partners. The marital relationship was presented by women by means of Family Drawing Test. The research included a control group which consisted of women who have not experienced violence from their husbands. The study involved 60 women (30 who have experienced violence from their husbands and 30 who have not). The survey was conducted by the use of The Family Drawing Test created by M. Braun-Gałkowska. Because of the representativeness of the groups, the research was conducted in the Specialist Support Centre for Victims of Domestic Violence in Opole. In order to verify the posed hypotheses, the following statistical methods were used: the Student’s t-test for the analysis of quantitative data and the chi-square test for the analysis of the qualitative data. The results indicate that women who experience domestic violence perceive their relationship in marriage negatively. Moreover, victims of domestic violence pay special attention to the lack of a proper communication in their marriage relationship and evaluate their relationships with their husbands more negatively than the wives from the control group. However, women who experience violence from their husbands assess their relationship as satisfactory, but not unambiguously positive. The presented study is only an introduction for further and future research, since the phenomenon of marital violence requires a deeper exploitation. 202 Aleksandra Stelmaszak