CFICE Poverty Reduction hub partners have recently published an article in the Journal of Poverty titled,聽.
Terry Mitchell, Colleen Loomis, Alexia Polillo, Brooke Fry, and Mary Mackeigan worked with CFICE as part of the Poverty Reduction hub‘s Phase I project on聽shifting societal attitudes towards people living in poverty.
In this article, the authors examine the attitudes that youth have towards individuals living in poverty in southwestern Ontario.
Abstract
Canada has been challenged in attempts to reduce and eliminate聽poverty. In this study, the authors used a projective technique to聽assess attitudes about people living in poverty (113 young adults,聽average age 21) living in southwestern Ontario. Five themes聽emerged from Thematic Apperception Test responses: (1) negative聽assumptions about people in poverty, (2) simplified beliefs about various pathways into poverty, (3) conditional compassion for those living in poverty, (4) gendered responses about women in poverty, and (5) individualized attitudes and beliefs about pathways out of poverty. Findings have implications for shifting victim-blaming explanations for why people are living in poverty.
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