Journal article
A New Factor Solution for the Domestic Violence-Related Financial Issues Scale (DV-FI)
Journal of interpersonal violence, Vol.36(17-18), pp.NP9959-NP9981
09/01/2021
DOI: 10.1177/0886260519860888
PMID: 31313625
Abstract
Economic abuse is a distinct form of intimate partner violence (IPV); yet, few measures of economic or financial factors exist. Weaver, Sanders, Campbell, and Schnabel's Domestic Violence-Related Financial Issues Scale (DV-FI) was developed to assess the role of financial-related issues in an individual's experiences of IPV as well as perceptions of financial self-efficacy and the future role that financial issues will play in one's sense of financial security. Despite its relevance to research focused on IPV, only portions of the DV-FI have been used in a handful of studies. The original factor analysis of the DV-FI identified five subscales within a shelter-based sample of impoverished, predominantly African American women. The DV-FI demonstrated good psychometric properties at the time of development; yet, to our knowledge, the factor structure of this measure has not been evaluated with another sample. Given the importance of identifying economic abuse and financial self-efficacy among women who experience IPV, it is essential to have a reliable and valid measure of these constructs. In this article, we describe the results of a confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis of the DV-FI using a community sample of 150 predominantly White, low-income women seeking civil legal services. We identified a four-factor solution of the DV-FI. Our findings provide support for the Financial Self-Efficacy subscale as a domain-specific measure of financial self-efficacy among women who experience IPV, but further validation is needed to explain the divergent findings for the remaining factors.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A New Factor Solution for the Domestic Violence-Related Financial Issues Scale (DV-FI)
- Creators
- Carolyn Copps Hartley - University of IowaLynette M. Renner - University of MinnesotaCaitlin Ward - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of interpersonal violence, Vol.36(17-18), pp.NP9959-NP9981
- Publisher
- Sage
- DOI
- 10.1177/0886260519860888
- PMID
- 31313625
- ISSN
- 0886-2605
- eISSN
- 1552-6518
- Number of pages
- 23
- Grant note
- 2010-WG-BX-0009 / National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- School of Social Work; Nursing; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283723302771
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