University of Texas-Arlington School of Social Work
University of Texas-Arlington School of Social Work, Arlington Texas.
Violence Vict. 2020 Feb 1;35(1):3-19. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-18-00154.
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 ( = 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.
学者们将经济虐待（EA）定义为施虐伴侣用来破坏亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）幸存者的自给自足和经济自我效能的策略。然而，还没有任何 EA 测量方法在非 IPV 服务寻求样本中进行过测试。本研究在一个非服务寻求的成年女性社区学院样本中评估了经济虐待量表（SEA）-12（Postmus、Plummer 和 Stylianou，2016）的心理测量特性。对女性社区学院学生的简单随机样本（n=435）进行了基于网络的定量调查。分析包括验证性因素分析（CFA）和探索性因素分析（EFA）。CFA 表明，该样本的 SEA-12 三因素模型拟合不良。EFA 的结果发现了一个保留了四个项目的单因素模型（经济虐待量表-短，或 SEAS）。女性在非 IPV 服务寻求人群之外也在经历 EA，而且在这个样本中，经济控制策略似乎是 EA 的核心。
