Measuring Attitudes toward Poverty: A New Scale

Impact of a Simulation Exercise on Pharmacy Student Attitude toward Poverty

“…Table 2 reports the presimulation and postsimulation means for each of the ATP Short Form 21 items and its three domains of personal deficiency, stigma, and structure. 16,18 Significant improvements in attitudes were noted in 15 of 21 items. Improvements in the stigma and structure domains were significant, while improvement in the personal deficiency domain was not significant.…”

“…The ATP Short Form scale was derived from the Attitude Toward Poverty (ATP) scale developed by Atherton and Gemmel to measure potential changes in attitudes toward poverty and people living in poverty. 18 The 21-item ATP Short Form was validated by Yun and Weaver through correlational analyses and independent samples t tests and established its reliability by analyzing salient factor loadings. 16 The response scale ranged from 15strongly agree to 55strongly disagree.…”

Dimensionality of the Chinese Perceived Causes of Poverty Scale: Findings Based on Confirmatory Factor Analyses

“…While some researchers have used a single item to measure perceived causes of poverty (Alston and Dean 1972), qualitative approach has been used by some researchers to understand attitudes toward poverty (Dowling 1999). Besides, researchers have commonly used multiple items to assess this construct: Feagin's (1972aFeagin's ( , b, 1975 used 11-items to assess three explanations of poverty; a 9-item scale based on the Feagin Scale was used to measure beliefs among social work students (Cryns 1977;Schwartz and Robinson 1991;Sun 2000); Golding and Middleton (1982) used 12-items to measure four sets of beliefs about causes of poverty; Atherton et al (1993) developed a 37-item measure of attitudes to poverty.…”

“…For example, with reference to the 18-item Causes of Third World Poverty Scale (Harper et al 1990), the four factors derived were based on 89 subjects only. The factor analytic findings reported by Atherton et al (1993) were based on 98 respondents only. Furthermore, most of the factor analytic studies have used exploratory factor analyses (Abouchedid and Nasser 2001;Feather 1974;Furnham 1983;Harper et al 1990;Morcol 1997;Singh and Vasudeva 1977) and attempts to use confirmatory factor analyses are rare.…”

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

“…Its response anchors ranged from 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree). This scale has demonstrated construct validity with an internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) of .93 and split-half reliability of .87 (Atherton et al, 1993). We judged that two items on the scale developed by Atherton et al (1993) required modification.…”