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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不寻求社会或支助服务以及在社区居住的妇女中经济滥用的衡量。

学者们将经济虐待（EA）定义为虐待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。但是，尚未在非IPV服务寻求样本中测试EA的度量。本研究评估了非服务性寻求社区大学成年女性样本的经济滥用量表（SEA）-12的心理计量学特性（Postmus，Plummer和Stylianou，2016）。对女性社区大学生（n = 435）的简单随机样本进行了基于网络的定量调查。分析包括确认性因素分析（CFA）和探索性因素分析（EFA）。CFA表明该样品中SEA-12的三因素模型不适合。全民教育的结果发现，有一个保留了四个项目的单一因素模型（经济滥用短期规模，即SEAS）。妇女在寻求IPV服务的人群之外正在体验EA，在本样本中，经济控制策略似乎是EA的核心。