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- Title
Measuring Attributions 50 Years on: From within-Country Poverty to Global Inequality.
- Authors
Bastias, Franco; Peter, Nadja; Goldstein, Aristobulo; Sánchez-Montañez, Santiago; Rohmann, Anette; Landmann, Helen
- Abstract
Fifty years after Feagin's pioneering 1972 study, we present a systematic review of the measurement of attributions for poverty and economic inequality. We conducted a search for articles published from 1972 to 2023 in APA PsycArticles, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, APA PsycInfo, PSYNDEX Literature with PSYNDEX Tests, and Google Scholar. We used the following English keywords: "poor", "poverty", "inequality", "attribution", and "attributions" and their equivalents in Spanish. Applying our inclusion and exclusion criteria led to a final sample of 74 articles. We report three main findings. First, the majority of studies classify attributions on the dimensions of individualistic vs. structural. Second, there is a clear tendency to measure attributions for domestic poverty without considering supranational factors or poverty as a global challenge. Third, studies focus almost exclusively on poverty rather than (economic) inequality. We identify potential for future development within the literature, namely, from a domestic to a global perspective, from locus to controllability, and from poverty to inequality.
- Subjects
INCOME inequality; WEALTH inequality; POVERTY; POVERTY rate; BEHAVIORISM (Psychology)
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 3, p186
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs14030186