Atribuciones sobre las causas de la pobreza general e infantil en Argentina

Causal Attribution for Poverty in Young People: Sociodemographic Characteristics, Religious and Political Beliefs

“…In fact, the reviewed literature shows a mixed causal classification for some items and a certain shared content between cultural attributions and internal or external attributions. This suggests that it could be more useful to consider them as complementary or coexistent instead of mutually exclusive categories or contradictory beliefs (Hunt 1996;Cozzarelli et al 2001;Bullock and Waugh 2005;Bobbio et al 2010;Weiner et al 2011;Small et al 2010;Norcia et al 2010;Sainz et al 2022;Segretin et al 2022). In this way, and according to previous studies, this study confirmed (1) three factors for poverty attributions: internal (items 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 11), external-structural (items 3, 7, 8, 12, 22) and cultural (items 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21) in line with most of the results from different research studies (Cozzarelli et al 2001;Reyna and Reparaz 2014;Segretin et al 2022); (2) significant differences between the three factors but also moderately significant relationships between the cultural factor and internal or external-structural factors (Halik et al 2012;Reyna and Reparaz 2014;Sainz et al 2022); and (3) a stronger alpha coefficient for internal and external attributions for poverty versus the third factor (which, in this study, is cultural, whereas it is fatalistic/structural in other studies) (Cozzarelli et al 2001;Bullock et al 2003;Ljubotina and Ljubotina 2007;Halik et al 2012;Bastias et al 2019;Sainz et al 2022).…”

“…Most of the studies about this subject classify the causal attributes of poverty into three groups: (1) internal or individual causes, where responsibility lies with oneself (e.g., a lack of effort, laziness, low in intelligence, being on drugs); (2) external causes or sources external to the people who are in that situation (e.g., being a victim of discrimination, low wages, disadvantages compared to rich people; or (3) fatalistic causes (factors beyond people's control that are related to fate, where individuals and society have little control-bad luck, disability or mental difficulties) (Feagin 1972;Kluegel and Smith 1986;Cozzarelli et al 2001;Weiss and Gal 2007;Reyna and Reparaz 2014;Osborne and Weiner 2015;Bastias et al 2019;Yúdica et al 2021;Sainz et al 2022). These causal explanations have been reported in different studies that have conducted exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses of the attributions for poverty to primarily determine their internal and external dimensions, while also obtaining different factorial structures, including social, structural, fatalistic or cultural explanations, and mixed categories (Bullock 1999;Kreidl 2000;Cozzarelli et al 2001;Bullock et al 2003;Hunt 2004;Nasser et al 2005;Weiss and Gal 2007;Ljubotina and Ljubotina 2007;Halik et al 2012;Bobbio et al 2010;Reyna and Reparaz 2014;Bergmann and Todd 2019;Sainz et al 2022;Segretin et al 2022). Although this tripartite division has been empirically supported, there is a serious discussion about whether causes can be placed in one of three mutually exclusive categories.…”

“…Although this tripartite division has been empirically supported, there is a serious discussion about whether causes can be placed in one of three mutually exclusive categories. Thus, the literature refers to the role of an individual explanation for the causes of poverty, and points out their interaction with other structural factors and explanations (Cozzarelli et al 2001;Small et al 2010;Weiner et al 2011;Norcia et al 2010;Segretin et al 2022).…”

“…There are two questions in this study. Previous research suggested some discrepancies as to whether causes can be placed in one of three mutually exclusive categories (Cozzarelli et al 2001;Small et al 2010;Weiner et al 2011;Norcia et al 2010;Segretin et al 2022). Previous studies also indicate that attribution causes of poverty are influenced by certain determinants, such as demographic characteristics (sex, age, social class), education or professional areas or types of undergraduate degrees and ideological/religious values or beliefs.…”

“…This report on unemployment in Spain warns of an increase in poverty and vulnerability, which, in turn, affects how Spanish people explain it, shaping their perceptions and behaviors regarding social inequalities, justice, equity and social policy development (Bullock et al 2003;Vázquez and Panadero 2007;Bastias et al 2019;Contreras-Montero and Hidalgo-Mesa 2021;Davidai 2022). As attributions of wealth and poverty can vary due to contextual and cultural influences, a series of different investigations seem to reflect a certain consensus, based on at least three causality dimensions of poverty attributions and their main determinants or predictors, such as personal or sociodemographic characteristics and ideological beliefs (Davidai 2022;Ljubotina et al 2022;Segretin et al 2022;Vázquez and Panadero 2022).…”