“…Categorizing people to those above and below poverty level is a product of artificial dichotomization based on one or many quantitative variables. Therefore, dichotomizations based on poverty lines of the median are very inaccurate simplifications (Chakravarty, 2018). Considering poverty's fuzzy conceptualization, an individual has a certain propensity to poverty in the whole spectrum of income (Ciani, Gagliardi, Riccarelli, & Betti, 2018) and, therefore, poverty should be conceptualized as a continuous variable representing "the degree of membership to the poverty set" (Neff, 2013, p. 322).…”