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Poverty in developing nations: a cross-cultural attributional analysis

โœ Scribed by Donald W. Hine; Christina Jayme Montiel

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
167 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0046-2772

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โœฆ Synopsis

A survey of anti-poverty activists and non-activists in Canada and the Philippines was conducted to assess their beliefs about the causes of poverty in developing nations. Principal components analysis revealed that the respondents' poverty attributions could be distinguished along ยฎve main dimensions: exploitation, characterological weaknesses of the poor, natural causes, conยฏict, and poor government. Group breakdowns revealed several signiยฎcant dierences related to respondents' countries of residence and social ideologies. A path analysis suggested that attributions fully mediated the relationship between social ideology and participation in anti-poverty activism.

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