Analyzing the Attitude of Undergraduate Students Toward Poverty and Impoverished Persons: Does Social Work Education Make a Difference?

Weaver, Robert D.; Yun, Sung Hyun

doi:10.1080/08841233.2011.539125

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“…Desde los primeros estudios sobre atribuciones causales de la pobreza, los estudiantes de trabajo social con frecuencia han constituido la muestra de estas investigaciones. En general, los resultados han mostrado que estos estudiantes tienden a favorecer factores externos más que explicaciones basadas en características de las personas pobres (Cryns, 1977;Ljubotina & Ljubotina, 2007;Merdinger, 1982;Roff, Adams, and Klemmack, 1984;Sharwell, 1974;Schwartz y Robinson, 1991;Weaver & Yun, 2011;Sun 2001). Frente a esto, son congruentes los resultados obtenidos en la presente investigación, donde los estudiantes de trabajo social muestran una clara preferencia por factores socioestructurales sobre los individuales, con diferencias estadísticamente significativas.…”

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Explicaciones sobre el origen de la pobreza según área de formación profesional

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La manera en que las personas y grupos explican la pobreza condiciona cómo se relacionan con ella. El presente trabajo indaga las explicaciones sobre el origen de la pobreza de estudiantes universitarios y analiza la relación de este posicionamiento con su área de formación profesional. Se administró un instrumento de evaluación que considera tres tipos de atribuciones -individualista, socioestructural y fatalista- a una muestra de 448 estudiantes universitarios avanzados de nueve carreras de ciencias sociales, con edades entre 19 y 42 años (M = 22,92; DT = 3,12). Los resultados obtenidos indican importantes variaciones en las explicaciones de la pobreza según área de formación profesional. Estudiantes de ciencias económicas enfatizaron la importancia de los factores individuales, estudiantes de psicología y abogacía tendieron a explicaciones mixtas y estudiantes de sociología mostraron una amplia preferencia por las causas socioestructurales. Se discuten las implicancias de los procesos atribucionales en las actuaciones de estos futuros profesionales hacia poblaciones en desventaja económica.

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“…Gumpert and Kraybill-Greggo (2005) administered the Atherton questionnaire as a pretest/posttest to measure change in attitudes among undergraduates who participated in intensive service trips that involved working directly with impoverished people. To evaluate the impact of social work courses on attitudes toward poverty, Weaver and Yun (2011) administered the Atherton scale to 166 undergraduate students enrolled in three different courses at a Canadian university. They modified 2 items in the scale, replacing the phrase ''food stamps'' with ''welfare benefits'' to use language befitting the Canadian welfare state.…”

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Validation of a Tool to Assess and Track Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Those Living in Poverty

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Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: This article describes the development and validation of the Undergraduate Perceptions of Poverty Tracking Survey (UPPTS). Method: Data were collected from 301 undergraduates at a small university in the Northeast and analyzed using exploratory factor analysis augmented by random qualitative validation. Results: The resulting survey contains 39 questions and has six factors that meet empirical standards for validity and reliability. The UPPTS provides information regarding undergraduate students' perceptions of those living in poverty in three areas: (1) general attitudes toward those living in poverty, including a sense of the students' underlying explanation for why someone may be poor; (2) understanding of and empathy for those living in poverty; and (3) commitment to addressing poverty via direct action or support for programs/services that aid those in poverty. Discussion: The UPPTS builds upon the concepts of a lack of social empathy and cognitive distancing as principal reasons why people fail to do more to help the poor via either direct action or support for programs that will aid the poor. Further, social work and other educators may use the UPPTS to guide their efforts in poverty education and to track the progress of their efforts with undergraduate students.

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“…In comparison with non-poor adults, poor adults are more likely to be employed in dangerous occupations and reside in neighborhoods that are closely located to toxic waste sites. Poverty also has a negative impact on infants and children, as it is positively associated with the rate of low birth-weight and malnourished babies that, consequently, heightens their proclivity for later being plagued with serious illnesses (Rapheal, 2007;Weaver & Yun, 2011). Alongside these detrimental effects on individuals, the costs associated with poverty can have a negative impact on a nation or region's overall economic climate.…”

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Social capital and its role in poverty reduction: a Canadian-based analysis

Weaver

2012

Journal of Comparative Social Welfare

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Social capital is receiving attention from the scholarly community as a potential mechanism for reducing poverty and promoting economic wellbeing. In this study, data are analyzed from Canada's nationally representative General Social Survey in order to estimate the associations between two social capital dimensions; that is, trust and voting behavior, and economic well-being. The results suggest that both generalized and particularized forms of trust as well as voting in national and local elections are positively associated with economic well-being. The policy and programmatic implications emanating from the study's results are discussed and recommendations for future studies are also provided.

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Analyzing the Attitude of Undergraduate Students Toward Poverty and Impoverished Persons: Does Social Work Education Make a Difference?

Cited by 25 publications

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Explicaciones sobre el origen de la pobreza según área de formación profesional

Explicaciones sobre el origen de la pobreza según área de formación profesional

Validation of a Tool to Assess and Track Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Those Living in Poverty

Social capital and its role in poverty reduction: a Canadian-based analysis

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