Poverty, Psychological Resources And Subjective Well-Being

Lever, Joaquina Palomar; Lanzagorta, Nuria; Uralde, Jorge Hernández

doi:10.1007/s11205-004-1072-7

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“…4. Exceptions include Clark (2002) and Lever et al (2005); see Gough and McGregor (2007) for a wider review. In Peru, DFID and World Bank (2003) focused on poor people's perceptions of poverty using focus group discussions.…”

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Well-Being in Development: Comparing Global Designs with Local Views in Peru

Copestake

2010

Eur J Dev Res

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Disagreements over development arise in part from different ways of thinking about human well-being, an issue explored here with reference to two pieces of empirical research in Peru. The first is an analysis of ontological assumptions underpinning secondary literature on development policy at the national level. The second is the pilot testing of a combined ethnographic and psychometric approach to measuring individuals' perceptions of well-being. Congruence and disjuncture between the different views of well-being that emerge from this analysis are systematically explored, along with the potential for reducing such gaps as a means to improving development practise. The paper also examines the link between such analysis and the role of what Mignolo refers to as 'border thinking' within the geopolitics of knowledge.Les de´saccords concernant le de´veloppement re´sultent en partie des manie`res diverses d'envisager le bien-eˆtre humain. Nous examinons cette question en nous appuyant sur deux travaux de recherche empirique mene´s au Pe´rou. Le premier est une analyse des hypothe`ses ontologiques sous-tendant la litte´rature secondaire sur la politique de de´veloppement national. Le second est l'essai pilote d'une approche a`la fois ethnographique et psychome´trique de la mesure des perceptions qu'ont les individus du bien-eˆtre. Nous examinons syste´matiquement les contrastes et similarite´s entre les diffe´rentes perceptions du bien-eˆtre re´ve´le´s par cette analyse ainsi que la possibilite´de re´duire ces e´carts dans le but d'ame´liorer les pratiques de de´veloppement. Cet article examine e´galement le lien entre une telle analyse et le roˆle de ce que Mignolo appelle 'la pense´e frontalie`re' dans le cadre de la notion de ge´opolitique de la connaissance.

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Well-Being in Development: Comparing Global Designs with Local Views in Peru

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2010

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“…Furthermore, Rosenberg (1989) has shown there to be a relationship between socioeconomic status and self-esteem. Contrary to these findings, some studies have found no relationship between socioeconomic status and scholastic self-perception (Schmitz, 2006) or socioeconomic status and selfesteem (Lever, Pinol, & Uralde, 2005). In addition to socioeconomic status influencing student's selfesteem and perceived academic abilities, a relationship between self-esteem and academic success has developed in the literature.…”

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Relationships Between Self-Esteem and Factors Known to Affect College Attendance

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“…A systematic review performed by Thoits (1995) on the relative importance of different personal resources for stress management and psychological well-being states that 'an impressive number of studies show that a sense of control or mastery both directly reduces psychological disturbance and physical illness and buffers the deleterious effects of stress exposure on physical and mental health' (p. 60). Hence, one's degree of perceived control is an important shock absorber, moderating the negative impact of stressors on mental well-being, and although most evidence concerns populations in relatively affluent conditions, the same mechanism is borne out among a number of low-income groups, for example among Salvadoran refugees recently settled in Canada (Young, 2001) and poor residents of Mexico City (Lever et al, 2005).…”

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How Do the Middle Class and the Poor Grow Apart? An Empirical Test of the Psychological Well-Being Pathway in Middle-Income Countries

Mourits

Kempen

2016

Eur J Dev Res

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How to define who exactly qualifies as middle class is a long-standing discussion, but has been given new impetus by recent contributions in behavioural economics and social psychology. This study investigates the plausibility of the claim that the middle class can be meaningfully defined as those with higher levels of mental well-being. To this purpose we explore the pathway from occupational class to locus of control, and further link this pathway to behaviour that is often associated with middle-class status. The article tests for interdependencies between these variables with data from 23 middle-income countries using the 2005 World Value Survey. We show by structural equation modelling that the data are at least consistent with a psychological well-being pathway. The analysis thus supports the idea that middle classes not only fare better because they have more stable financial means, but also because these socioeconomic circumstances allow them more mental resources.La définition de qui, exactement, fait partie de la classe moyenne est une discussion de longue date, mais qui a reçu un nouvel élan grâce aux contributions récentes de l'économie comportementale et la psychologie sociale. Cette étude examine la plausibilité de l'allégation selon laquelle la classe moyenne peut être définie comme ces personnes qui ont un niveau supérieur de bien-être mental. A cette fin, nous explorons le cheminement entre la classe professionnelle et le lieu de contrôle, et nous relions ce cheminement à un comportement qui est souvent associé avec le statut de classe moyenne. L'article cherche les interdépen-dances entre ces variables et les données provenant de 23 pays à revenu intermédiaire en utilisant le World Value Survey de 2005. Nous montrons par modélisation à équation structurelle que les données sont au moins compatibles avec un cheminement de bien-être psychologique. L'analyse soutient donc l'idée que les classes moyennes s'en tirent mieux non seulement parce qu'elles ont une situation financière plus stable, mais aussi parce que ces circonstances socio-économiques leur apportent davantage de ressources mentales.

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Poverty, Psychological Resources And Subjective Well-Being

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Cited by 79 publications

References 69 publications

Well-Being in Development: Comparing Global Designs with Local Views in Peru

Well-Being in Development: Comparing Global Designs with Local Views in Peru

Relationships Between Self-Esteem and Factors Known to Affect College Attendance

How Do the Middle Class and the Poor Grow Apart? An Empirical Test of the Psychological Well-Being Pathway in Middle-Income Countries

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