TY - JOUR
AU - Shek, Daniel T. L.
AB - Objective: Existing studies of lay explanations of poverty in the social work literature are plagued with methodological problems. The psychometric properties of the 13-item Chinese Perceived Causes of Poverty Scale (CPCPS), which assessed four categories of explanations of poverty, were examined. Method: Chinese parents and their adolescent children from 229 families experiencing economic hardship were asked to respond to the CPCPS. Results: Results consistently showed that four factors were abstracted from the scale: Personal Problems, Exploitation, Lack of Opportunity, and Fate. The four related subscales were also found to be internally consistent, and there was some support for their construct validity. Conclusions: The present study suggests that the CPCPS possesses sound psychometric properties. The findings also point out the importance of empirically demonstrating the existence of measures assessing different constructs when social work practitioners and researchers examine lay explanations of poverty.
TI - Chinese People's Explanations of Poverty: The Perceived Causes of Poverty Scale
JF - Research on Social Work Practice
DO - 10.1177/1049731503253376
DA - 2003-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/chinese-people-s-explanations-of-poverty-the-perceived-causes-of-J070f6FDIP
SP - 622
EP - 640
VL - 13
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -