Measuring Economic Abuse in the Lives of Survivors: Revising the Scale of Economic Abuse.
Recent attention has been given by researchers to understanding how abusers use economic abuse strategies. Unfortunately, limited measures are available to accurately understand the prevalence of economic abuse in the lives of survivors. Recently, researchers created the 28-item Scale of Economic Abuse (SEA) but further validation is needed. This article describes the psychometric evaluation of the SEA through confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses using data collected with 120 survivors of abuse. The findings provide evidence for the reliability and validity of the SEA-12 as a shorter instrument to measure economic abuse as a distinct form of abuse.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA postmus@ssw.rutgers.edu.
Judy L
JL
Postmus
Social Work Program, Walden University, USA.
Sara-Beth
SB
Plummer
Research & Program Development, Safe Horizon, New York, USA.
Amanda M
AM
Stylianou
D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D004467:Economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States
economic abuse; intimate partner violence