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Title
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Psychological Experiences of Girls in Child Marriages In a Marginalised Community in Nyanga District in Manicaland Province
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Creator
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Mauwa Greta C
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Matsikure Memory
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Matsikure Pickmore
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Maunganidze Levison
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Abstract
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Abstract: Child marriages continue to be a global challenge causing major physiological and psychological health problems. The purpose of the study was to explore the psychological experiences of girls in child marriages in a marginalised Community in Nyanga District. An interpretive phenomenological approach was adopted to explore the lifeworld of girls in child marriages. Twenty-five (25) participants were identified and recruited using snowball sampling. Data for the study was collected using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Content analysis was used to analyse and draw themes from the data. The aim was to attain a condensed and broad description of the psychological experiences of girls in child marriages. This involved reading out each in-depth interview and focus group discussion to identify potential codes and creating a coding system and assigning agreed-upon codes to relevant texts. The investigators independently coded data and compared notes to ensure reliability. The themes which emerged from the in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were lack of self-identity, depression, low self-esteem, isolation, post-traumatic stress, helplessness and lack of confidence. Support networks are important for girls in child marriages in marginalised communities of a low resourced country like Zimbabwe.
Keywords
Psychological experiences, child Marriages, Zimbabwe, marginalized, child marriages
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Date
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2020
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Source
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International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science
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volume
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4
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issue
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4
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issn
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ISSN: 2521-0793
