How do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales

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dc.contributor.authorSainz, Mario
dc.contributor.authorDiego Garcia-Castro, Juan
dc.contributor.authorJimenez-Moya, Gloria
dc.contributor.authorLobato, Roberto M.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:07:08Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:07:08Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe attributional process, defined as the process of inferring the causes of the events that surround individuals in their daily lives, can potentially shape the understanding of poverty and wealth. For instance, it might influence how people behave, what they expect from poor and wealthy groups in their society, and how they judge them. However, the existing measures that capture these attributional phenomena have several limitations. Some attributional factors lack empirical support, or some implemented items lack relevance in contemporary society. Therefore, the present study is aimed to deepen the understanding of the attributional process by reviewing the factor structure of the poverty (Cozzarelli et al, 2001) and wealth attribution scales (Bullock et al, 2003), as well as adapting and verifying the validity of these scales among the Mexican population. To do so, we revised the factor structure of the poverty and wealth attribution scales to create a unified scale. We back-translated the original items, conducted exploratory and confirmatory analyses, restructured the scale's factors, and related them with other covariates. Our results indicate that these scales uniquely differentiate between internal and external attributions, demonstrating that the new factor structure is better for measuring attributional processes regarding the perceived causes of poverty and wealth than those used in previous research.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1332/175982721X16645485533332
dc.identifier.eissn1759-8281
dc.identifier.issn1759-8273
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1332/175982721X16645485533332
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91767
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000886708000001
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final100
dc.pagina.inicio81
dc.revistaJournal of poverty and social justice
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectattributions
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectwealth
dc.subjectscales
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.titleHow do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen31
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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