A Short Form of the Financial Exploitation Vulnerability Scale.

Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to develop a short form of the Financial Exploitation Vulnerability Scale (FEVS) with good psychometric properties to detect contextual risk exploitation.

Methods: The sample included community volunteers who were 60 years and older, as well as elders who were referred to the SAFE program after being the victim of a financial scam or identity theft. All participants completed the FEVS as part of a larger test battery.

Cross-validation of the screening scale in an adult protective services sample.

Adult Protective Services (APS) professionals are often called on to assess decision-making capacity when investigating financial exploitation. Previous research found that in consecutive APS cases, a decision-making screening scale (LFDSS) also detected financial exploitation. The purpose of this study was to apply the clinical cutoff scores derived from the previous study to a new sample of APS cases.

Genetic effects on children's conversational language use.

Purpose: The present study examined the extent of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in children's conversational language use.

Method: Behavioral genetic analyses focused on conversational measures and 2 standardized tests from 380 twins (M = 7.13 years) during the 2nd year of the Western Reserve Reading Project (S.