Citation

Postmus JL, Plummer SB, Stylianou AM. Violence Against Women 2016; 22(6): 692-703.

Affiliation

Research & Program Development, Safe Horizon, New York, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215610012

PMID

26508530

Abstract

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.

Language: en