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dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-18T10:51:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-18T10:51:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Gatt, N. (2007). An analysis of the oldest profession: a psychological study of the onset of street prostitution in Malta (Bachelor's dissertation). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/84224 | - |
dc.description | B.PSY.(HONS) | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | This study attempts to discover the psychological factors that contribute to a woman's entrance in street prostitution in Malta. Consequently, the research question is 'What are the psychological factors underlying a woman's decision to become a street prostitute in Malta?' This question is significant especially because of the restricted literature on the psychological aspect underlying prostitution not only in the local context but also in foreign contexts. It is also important in presenting the facts without any bias for a narrow-minded society in which prostitution is considered as a dishonourable, shameful taboo subject. A qualitative approach based on a narrative perspective has been chosen in order to seek to arrive at to the whole truth as much as possible behind the entrance into street prostitution through accurate, rich amounts of data being narrated by women who lived the experience of prostitution. The results show that social and financial poverty as well as experienced rejection in school contribute largely to the onset of street prostitution in Malta. The major usefulness of this study may be in diminishing society's ignorance when judging prostitutes as lacking any dignity without having had the grounds/basis for their judgment, through the emergence of original factual data on the origins of a woman's entry into street prostitution. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Prostitutes -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Prostitutes -- Malta -- Social conditions | en_GB |
dc.subject | Poverty -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Prostitution -- Malta -- Psychological aspects | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rejection (Psychology) -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | An analysis of the oldest profession : a psychological study of the onset of street prostitution in Malta | en_GB |
dc.type | bachelorThesis | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Gatt, Nathalie (2007) | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dissertations - FacSoW - 1997-2010 Dissertations - FacSoWPsy - 1993-2010 |
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