School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2021 Sep;68(1-2):29-46. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12491. Epub 2020 Dec 18.
Financial empowerment interventions are often used with survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to improve their financial well-being. However, few evaluations actually measure financial empowerment as an outcome. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop and test a conceptual model for financial empowerment and then use the model to evaluate the effectiveness of a financial literacy intervention at increasing financial empowerment for survivors. The conceptual model was guided by Christens' nomological network for psychological empowerment and included four components: emotional, cognitive, relational, and behavioral. The analyses used data from a randomized controlled trial evaluating Moving Ahead, a financial literacy program developed for IPV survivors (n = 449). To determine whether this intervention was effective at increasing financial empowerment for survivors over time, confirmatory factor analyses were run to test for longitudinal measurement invariance, followed by a curve-of-factors growth model (CFM) with assignment as a time-invariant predictor of change. Strict partial longitudinal measurement invariance was achieved and CFM results found assignment to be significantly associated with both initial status (.054, p = .042) and change over time (.114, p = .000). Results suggest that this conceptual model for financial empowerment fit the data well and the intervention was effective.
经济赋权干预措施常用于亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）幸存者，以改善他们的经济福祉。然而，很少有评估实际上将经济赋权作为结果进行衡量。因此，本研究的目的是开发和检验经济赋权的概念模型，然后使用该模型评估财务知识干预措施在增加幸存者经济赋权方面的有效性。该概念模型以 Christens 的心理赋权规范网络为指导，包括四个组成部分：情感、认知、关系和行为。分析使用了一项随机对照试验的数据，该试验评估了为 IPV 幸存者开发的财务知识计划“前进”（n=449）。为了确定该干预措施是否随着时间的推移有效地提高了幸存者的经济赋权，进行了验证性因素分析以测试纵向测量不变性，然后进行了曲线因子增长模型（CFM）分析，其中分配作为变化的时间不变预测因子。严格的部分纵向测量不变性得以实现，CFM 结果发现分配与初始状态（.054，p=0.042）和随时间的变化（.114，p=0.000）显著相关。结果表明，该经济赋权概念模型很好地拟合了数据，并且该干预措施是有效的。
