“…Therefore, although indicators of material deprivation do not indicate direct financial difficulties, they do demonstrate shortages of particular necessary items and services in households. Each indicator is reflected in two dimensions: the ability to afford necessities (i.e., a washing machine, a car, a colour television, a telephone), and the opportunity to improve living conditions and decrease financial commitments (i.e., to pay mandatory contributions, debts, and bills; to maintain warm housing; to pay unexpected obligatory expenses; to eat meat and protein-rich food regularly; and to have holidays away from home for at least a week) (Balvočiūtė, 2019;Bonanno et al, 2019;Mazziotta et al, 2019;Mussida & Parisi, 2019).…”