MOVERS is a 13-item scale that measures survivor empowerment within the domain of safety. It is available in English and Spanish and demonstrates a strong factor structure and high reliability and validity in IPV survivors seeking services.

MOVERS is composed of three subscales that assess distinct domains of safety related empowerment: Internal Tools assesses the extent to which a survivor has developed a set of safety-related goals and a belief in her ability to accomplish them; Expectation of Support assesses the degree to which a survivor perceives that she has the support she needs to move towards safety; and Trade-offs assesses the extent to which the survivor feels that her efforts to achieve safety will trigger new problems. Participants respond to each item using a five-point Likert scale (from “never true” to “always true”). Scores on each subscale are summed and averaged to produce subscale scores.

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Citation

Goodman, L. A., Cattaneo, L. B., Thomas, K., Woulfe, J., Chong, S. K., & Smyth, K. F. (2015). Advancing domestic violence program evaluation: Development and validation of the Measure of Victim Empowerment Related to Safety (MOVERS). Psychology of Violence, 5(4), 355-366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038318

Downloadable MOVERS Scales are available in the following languages:

• Arabic

• Bengali

• Burmese

• Chinese (Simplified)

• English

• Farsi

• French

• Gujrati

• Hindi

• Korean

• Nepali

• Persian

• Punjabi

• Russian

• Somali

• Spanish

• Swahili

• Tamil

• Urdu

• Vietnamese

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