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A New Scale of Poverty: How the Officially Recorded Poor People in Turkey Perceive Themselves
Author(s) -
Yakışık Harun,
Dölarslan Emre Şahin,
Zülfikar Berna Şafak
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12225
Subject(s) - fatalism , poverty , turkish , scale (ratio) , socioeconomic status , attribution , psychology , sample (material) , socioeconomics , political science , economic growth , development economics , social psychology , sociology , geography , economics , demography , population , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , theology , cartography , chromatography
Governments adopt policies to prevent and address the socioeconomic problem of poverty. This article examines how officially recorded poor people perceive themselves and the causes of their poverty. It is based on a sample of 531 officially recorded poor people living in the Turkish province of Çankiri. A questionnaire was administered comprising 69 characteristics of poverty. The findings suggest that there are four main causal explanations for poverty attributions: fatalism, discrimination, moral deficiencies and personal deficiencies. The measure developed for this research can be tested and applied to different cultural groups with a high level of validity and reliability.