Citation

Voth Schrag RJ, Ravi K. Violence Vict. 2020; 35(1): 3-19.

Affiliation

University of Texas-Arlington School of Social Work, Arlington Texas.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-18-00154

PMID

32015066

Abstract

Scholars have defined economic abuse (EA) as tactics used by abusive partners to undermine the self-sufficiency and economic self-efficacy of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). However, no measures of EA have been tested in non-IPV-service seeking samples. The current study assesses the psychometric properties of the Scale of Economic Abuse (SEA)-12 (Postmus, Plummer, & Stylianou, 2016) in a nonservice seeking sample of adult females attending community college. A quantitative web-based survey was administered to a simple random sample of female community college students (n = 435). Analyses included confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). CFA indicated a poor fit for the three-factor model of the SEA-12 in this sample. The results of the EFA found a single factor model retaining four items (the Scale of Economic Abuse-Short, or SEAS). Women are experiencing EA outside of IPV service-seeking populations, and that tactics of economic control seem to be central to EA in this sample.

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Language: en

Keywords

economic abuse; economic stability; intimate partner violence; measurement