Adolescents’ understanding of poverty and the poor in rural Malaysia

Halik, Murnizam; Webley, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2009.02.006

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“…Betz and Kayser 2017;Hakovirta and Kallio 2016;Leahy 1990;Ramsey 1991) while, less frequently, children have also been asked how they think inequality or poverty might be addressed (e.g. Halik and Webley 2011;Leahy 1990).…”

Section: Children's Perceptions Of Inequalitymentioning

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‘It’s Not Something I Can Change…’: Children’s perceptions of inequality and their agency in relation to their occupational choices

Kim

Gewirtz

2019

Child Ind Res

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Despite the increasing recognition of the significance of children's own perceptions of inequality and critical theorisations of, and much research on, the impact of inequality on human agency, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the impact of inequality on children's agency. This paper contributes to addressing this gap by exploring how children's perceptions of inequality impinge upon their perceptions of the efficacy of their agency with regard to their occupational choices. It uses questionnaire data from a sample of 862 South Korean school children aged 10-18 from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and follow-up semi-structured interviews with 42 selected children. The findings suggest that, while most of the children held meritocratic beliefs about academic and economic inequalities, some subtle but significant relationships existed between the children's perceptions of inequality, their socioeconomic status and their perceptions of their agency. The older children were significantly more likely both to be aware of their relative academic and economic positions and to have given up a desired occupation in response to their perceptions of the inefficacy of their agency. Across the sample as a whole, in the processes by which the children adjusted their future occupational ambitions, while their socioeconomic status (especially in terms of the father's occupation) had a significant impact, the children's awareness of their relative positions, especially their economic position, showed a more pervasive and significant relationship with their likelihood of having given up a desired occupation due to having perceived the inefficacy of their agency.

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Section: Children's Perceptions Of Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It’s Not Something I Can Change…’: Children’s perceptions of inequality and their agency in relation to their occupational choices

Kim

Gewirtz

2019

Child Ind Res

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“…Adults, for example, saw lack of access to clean water as a key distinguishing feature of poverty; children, on the other hand, mentioned shame, labour requirements, and a lack of assets such as toys or a television. Halik and Webley (2009) This study of Malay teens found that older adolescents were likely to see a multifaceted causality of poverty that included both individualistic and structural causes. Rural teens were more likely to identify themselves as poor, while poor urban teens were more likely to conclude that there were others with worse conditions than their own.…”

Section: Knowledge Generation and Child Well-being In Asiamentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Subjective well-being data on impoverished Asian children are almost non-existent. However, a trio of studies have each found that poverty contributes to children's and teens' sense of ill-being in one way or another (Harpham et al, 2005;Halik and Webley, 2009). Halik and Webley found that as children age they gain increasingly complex understanding of the causality of poverty, seeing both structural and individual causes.…”

Section: Children and Subjective Well-beingmentioning

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Child poverty, evidence and policyMainstreaming children in international development

Jones¹,

Sumner²

2011

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“…Previous research in Malaysia has suggested that rural participants may not share the same understanding of poverty and income as their urban counterparts [56]. Combined with the fact that many individuals in rural settings do not receive a steady monthly income, it has been suggested that measures of actual income may not be a reliable measure of socioeconomic status in this context [54].…”

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Resource Security Impacts Men’s Female Breast Size Preferences

Swami

Tovée

2013

PLoS ONE

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It has been suggested human female breast size may act as signal of fat reserves, which in turn indicates access to resources. Based on this perspective, two studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that men experiencing relative resource insecurity should perceive larger breast size as more physically attractive than men experiencing resource security. In Study 1, 266 men from three sites in Malaysia varying in relative socioeconomic status (high to low) rated a series of animated figures varying in breast size for physical attractiveness. Results showed that men from the low socioeconomic context rated larger breasts as more attractive than did men from the medium socioeconomic context, who in turn perceived larger breasts as attractive than men from a high socioeconomic context. Study 2 compared the breast size judgements of 66 hungry versus 58 satiated men within the same environmental context in Britain. Results showed that hungry men rated larger breasts as significantly more attractive than satiated men. Taken together, these studies provide evidence that resource security impacts upon men’s attractiveness ratings based on women’s breast size.

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Adolescents’ understanding of poverty and the poor in rural Malaysia

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

‘It’s Not Something I Can Change…’: Children’s perceptions of inequality and their agency in relation to their occupational choices

‘It’s Not Something I Can Change…’: Children’s perceptions of inequality and their agency in relation to their occupational choices

Child poverty, evidence and policyMainstreaming children in international development

Resource Security Impacts Men’s Female Breast Size Preferences

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