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CONTENT AND UNIFORMITY OF STEREOTYPES AND META‐STEREOTYPES OF HOMELESS PEOPLE IN MADRID (SPAIN)
Author(s) -
Vázquez José Juan,
Panadero Sonia,
Zúñiga Claudia
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.21836
Subject(s) - psychology , content (measure theory) , social psychology , sample (material) , older people , gerontology , medicine , mathematical analysis , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography
This study analyses the content and the uniformity of meta‐stereotypes among homelessness people, and the stereotypes that domiciled people have of homeless people. The research took place in Madrid (Spain), based on data provided by a representative sample of homeless people (n = 188) and a sample of people at no risk of becoming homeless (n = 180). Results show that stereotypes of homeless people and homeless people's meta‐stereotypes predominantly have negative or indulgent content, with very little positive content, and have a high degree of uniformity, with hardly any differences in terms of basic socio‐demographic variables. The meta‐stereotypes of homeless people are more uniform, and are more negative and less indulgent than the stereotypes that domiciled people have established regarding homeless people.