Explanations about Poverty Origin According to Professional Training Area

Autor/inn/en	Bastias, Franco; Cañadas, Belén; Figueroa, María Candelaria; Sosa, Valentina; Moya, María Julieta
Titel	Explanations about Poverty Origin According to Professional Training Area
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 7 (2019) 2, S.121-133 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bastias, Franco) ORCID (Cañadas, Belén) ORCID (Figueroa, María Candelaria) ORCID (Sosa, Valentina) ORCID (Moya, María Julieta)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2307-7999
Schlagwörter	Poverty; College Students; Student Attitudes; Social Attitudes; Intellectual Disciplines; Foreign Countries; Attribution Theory; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Geisteswissenschaften; Ausland; Argentinien
Abstract	The way in which individuals and groups explain poverty shapes how they relate to it. This paper inquires the beliefs of university students about the causes of poverty and analyses the relation of these beliefs with their professional training area. An assessment instrument that considers three type of attributions -individualist, socio-structural and fatalistic-, was administered to a sample of 448 advanced university students belonging to nine social sciences programs, aged between 19 and 42 years (M = 22.92; SD = 3.12). The results obtained indicate important variations in the explanations about poverty according to the professional training area. Students of economic sciences emphasized the importance of individual factors, psychology and law students tended to mixed explanations and sociology students showed a wide preference for socio-structural causes over individual and fatalistic causes. The implications of attributional process in the behavior of these future professionals towards economically disadvantaged populations are discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01