‘Elastic band strategy’: women's lived experience of coping with domestic violence in rural Indonesia

Figures & data

Table 1. Data analysis structure (adapted from van Manen [34, 35])

Themes Sub themes	Reflective inquiry activities	Interpretative level
Formulated meaning unit
Meaning unit	Empirical inquiry activities	Descriptive level
Transcript
Interview with the respondent

Table 2. Data analysis examples

Empirical inquiry		Reflective inquiry
Meaning unit (from the transcripts)	Formulated meaning (descriptive analysis)	Subtheme (interpretative analysis)
I wore a Muslim veil because he wanted me to. I had to keep everything covered. I wasn't allowed to look beautiful and I wasn't allowed to get dressed up. As a wife I did what he wanted. If he told me what to do, I did what he said … the important thing to me was to maintain peace at home …	He directed her performance.	Being controlled on how to perform.
	She was obedient and complied with his orders to keep the marriage intact.	Obedience and submissiveness as strategy to maintain the family harmony.
	She confessed during health attendance that she was burnt by his cigarette butts.	Traditional belief about women's role in marriage.
I couldn't take it anymore so I told the head of the local Health Center when he asked, ‘Why are you always getting chicken pox?’ that actually they were really cigarette burns, not chicken pox.		Self-disclosure during health attendance.
		Physically tortured.

Table 3. Profile of the informants

Identity code	Age	Education	Occupation	Number of children	Types of violence experienced
S1 (divorced)	35 years	Bachelor degree	Primary health care staff	2	Physical, sexual, emotional & economic
S2	35 years	High school	Run a small shop at home	2	Physical, emotional & economic
S3 (divorced)	33 years	High school	Run a small shop at home	2	Physical, sexual, emotional & economic
S4	50 years	Bachelor degree	Civil servant (health district office)	2	Physical, emotional & economic
S5	43 years	Bachelor degree	Civil servant (teacher)	3	Physical, emotional & economic
S6	42 years	Bachelor degree	Civil servant (teacher)	3	Physical, sexual, emotional & economic
S7 (divorced)	38 years	Bachelor degree	Civil servant (sub district office)	2	Emotional & economic

Fig. 1.  Coping dynamics of women survivors of domestic violence in rural Purworejo.