- Associate Professor, Ecological-Community Psychology
- Faculty
- 517-353-4568
- adamsadr@msu.edu
About
Adrienne Adams, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on economic abuse and the economic effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) for survivors. Dr. Adams developed and validated the first measure of economic abuse and recently published an updated version of the instrument. Currently, Adrienne is studying the problem of coerced debt, a form of economic abuse that occurs when abusive partners create debt in their partners’ names using fraud, coercion, and/or manipulation. In addition to her research, Dr. Adams has expertise in designing and evaluating community-based interventions and victim service programs. She collaborated with a local credit union and six local organizations serving IPV survivors to develop and evaluate a low-interest personal loan program to provide survivors with an affordable option for removing financial barriers to safety and rebuilding their credit. Also, over the past 15 years, she has evaluated several local, state, and national DV and sexual assault victim service programs.
Select Publications
- Adams, A. E., Greeson, M, Javorka, M, & Littwin, A. (2020). The revised scale of Economic Abuse (SEA2): Development and initial psychometric testing of an updated measure of economic abuse in intimate relationships. Psychology of Violence, 10(3), 268-278.
- Adams, A. E., Littwin, A., & Javorka, M. (2020). The frequency, nature, and effects of coerced debt among a national sample of women seeking help for domestic violence. Violence Against Women, 26(11), 1324-1342.
- Adams, A. E., Beeble, M. A., & Gregory, K. A. (2015). Evidence of the construct validity of the Scale of Economic Abuse. Violence and Victims, 20(3), 363-376.
- Adams, A. E., Sullivan, C. M., Bybee, D., & Greeson, M. (2008). Development of the Scale of Economic Abuse. Violence Against Women,14, 563-588.
