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Published on: February 2, 2020
Domestic abuse against elder women and perceived barriers to help-seeking
Frederick L Newman1, Laura R Seff, Richard L Beaulaurier
1Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. newmanf@fiu.edu
Abstract:
The study's (n = 447) purposes were to (1) describe relationships of abuser behavior to elder women's perception of barriers to help-seeking; (2) compare fit of model to participants' levels of abuse, race-ethnicity, age, and gender and relationship of identified close other; and (3) determine extent to which the model differentiated relationship of abuser to participant and level of abuse. Analyses identified six factors contributing to the overall barrier score, accounting for 84% of total variance (χ2/df = 1.527, CFI = .989, RMSEA = .034), including three internal and two external factors and a single abuser behavior factor that were invariant across participant characteristic; however, covariances did differ.
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