Financial Literacy. Building Economic Empowerment with Survivors of Violence
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12/26/12The purpose of this paper is to outline key constructs including financial literacy, economic self efficacy, economic self sufficiency, and economic empowerment, and then present findings from an exploratory study that sought to understand the relationship among these variables in a sample of abused women. The results reveal positive and significant relationships between financial literacy with economic empowerment, economic self efficacy and economic-self sufficiency. Results also indicate that financial literacy, race, and economic self sufficiency were significant predictors of economic empowerment.