Postmus Judy L, Hoge Gretchen L, Breckenridge Jan, Sharp-Jeffs Nicola, Chung Donna
Center on Violence Against Women and Children, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Department of Social Work, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, USA.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2020 Apr;21(2):261-283. doi: 10.1177/1524838018764160. Epub 2018 Mar 27.
The predominant perception of intimate partner violence (IPV) as constituting physical violence can still dominate, particularly in research and media reports, despite research documenting multiple forms of IPV including sexual violence occurring between intimate partners and various forms of psychological and emotional abuse. One frequently hidden or "invisible" form of abuse perpetrated within intimate partner relationships is economic abuse, also referred to as financial abuse in much of the literature. While the links between gendered economic insecurity and economic abuse are emerging, there remains a lack of consistency about definitions within the United States and globally, as there is no agreed upon index with which to measure economic abuse. As such, the purpose of this article is to review and analyze the global literature focused on either economic or financial abuse to determine how it is defined and what measures are used to capture its prevalence and impact. The 46 peer-reviewed articles that met all inclusion criteria for analysis came from a range of countries across six continents. Our review found that there is growing clarity and consistency of terminologies being used in these articles and found some consistency in the use of validated measures. Since this research is in its "infancy," we need to have stronger collaborative efforts to use similar measures and terminology. Part of that collaborative effort is to consider how language and cultural differences may play a part in our understanding of economic abuse.
尽管研究表明亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）存在多种形式，包括亲密伴侣之间发生的性暴力以及各种形式的心理和情感虐待，但人们对亲密伴侣暴力主要构成身体暴力的认知仍然占据主导地位，尤其是在研究和媒体报道中。亲密伴侣关系中一种经常被隐藏或“无形”的虐待形式是经济虐待，在许多文献中也被称为财务虐待。虽然性别化经济不安全与经济虐待之间的联系正在显现，但在美国和全球范围内，对于经济虐待的定义仍缺乏一致性，因为没有一个公认的指标来衡量经济虐待。因此，本文的目的是回顾和分析聚焦于经济或财务虐待的全球文献，以确定其如何被定义以及使用哪些措施来了解其发生率和影响。符合所有分析纳入标准的46篇同行评审文章来自六大洲的一系列国家。我们的综述发现，这些文章中使用的术语越来越清晰和一致，并且在使用经过验证的措施方面也有一些一致性。由于这项研究尚处于“起步阶段”，我们需要加强合作，采用类似的措施和术语。这种合作努力的一部分是考虑语言和文化差异如何可能影响我们对经济虐待的理解。
