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Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36
The Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) is a validated scale measuring women’s exposure to economic coercion for low-income countries. A valid short form is needed to facilitate parsimonious measurement of economic coercion in general surveys or program evaluations. We used data from a probability s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10586689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37856439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287963 |
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author | Miedema, Stephanie Spaid Cheong, Yuk Fai Naved, Ruchira Tabassum Yount, Kathryn M. |
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description | The Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) is a validated scale measuring women’s exposure to economic coercion for low-income countries. A valid short form is needed to facilitate parsimonious measurement of economic coercion in general surveys or program evaluations. We used data from a probability sample of 930 married women 15–49 years in Matlab, Bangladesh. We selected 21 items from the ECS-36 based on theory, content coverage, and item and dimensional information. We evaluated external validity with measures of non-economic intimate partner violence and depressive symptoms. We tested measurement invariance of the short-form scale across participants and non-participants of microfinance programs. A final, 20-item scale captured husband’s interference with wife’s (1) acquisition of economic resources and (2) use or maintenance of economic resources. IRT results of the ECS-20 demonstrated precision over the higher range of the economic coercion trait. Tests of external validity confirmed expected correlations of the ECS-20 with measures of IPV and depressive symptoms. The ECS-20 was measurement invariant across groups of women who did and did not participate in microfinance programs. The ECS-20, a valid short-form of the ECS-36, is suitable for general surveys and monitoring potential adverse impacts of microfinance programs targeting women. |
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spelling | pubmed-105866892023-10-20 Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 Miedema, Stephanie Spaid Cheong, Yuk Fai Naved, Ruchira Tabassum Yount, Kathryn M. PLoS One Research Article The Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) is a validated scale measuring women’s exposure to economic coercion for low-income countries. A valid short form is needed to facilitate parsimonious measurement of economic coercion in general surveys or program evaluations. We used data from a probability sample of 930 married women 15–49 years in Matlab, Bangladesh. We selected 21 items from the ECS-36 based on theory, content coverage, and item and dimensional information. We evaluated external validity with measures of non-economic intimate partner violence and depressive symptoms. We tested measurement invariance of the short-form scale across participants and non-participants of microfinance programs. A final, 20-item scale captured husband’s interference with wife’s (1) acquisition of economic resources and (2) use or maintenance of economic resources. IRT results of the ECS-20 demonstrated precision over the higher range of the economic coercion trait. Tests of external validity confirmed expected correlations of the ECS-20 with measures of IPV and depressive symptoms. The ECS-20 was measurement invariant across groups of women who did and did not participate in microfinance programs. The ECS-20, a valid short-form of the ECS-36, is suitable for general surveys and monitoring potential adverse impacts of microfinance programs targeting women. Public Library of Science 2023-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10586689/ /pubmed/37856439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287963 Text en © 2023 Miedema et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Miedema, Stephanie Spaid Cheong, Yuk Fai Naved, Ruchira Tabassum Yount, Kathryn M. Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 |
title | Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 |
title_full | Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 |
title_fullStr | Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 |
title_short | Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36 |
title_sort | development and validation of the economic coercion scale-20 (ecs-20): a short-form of the ecs-36 |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10586689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37856439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287963 |
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