@misc{10481/82491,
year = {2023},
month = {4},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/82491},
abstract = {Poverty is a phenomenon that affects men and women differently. In the current research, we examined social perceptions
of poor men and women across three experiments focusing on attributions for poverty, classist attitudes, and stereotypes
about poor people. In Study 1, participants from the general population (N = 484) made more individualistic (dispositional)
attributions for men’s poverty compared to women’s poverty, blaming men more for their poverty. Participants also believed
that men would manage the assistance they received from the state more poorly than women. These patterns were observed
across all three studies. In Study 2 (N = 256), we also found that more individualistic attributions for why men were in poverty
predicted more negative attitudes toward social protection policies concerning men. In Study 3 (N = 358), we replicated the
results observed in Study 2, and found that women in poverty were described as mor communal and competent than men in
poverty. We interpret these results considering the operation of traditional gender roles as well as the parallelism between
stereotypes of women and poor people. Our results are relevant to the framing of the proposals by social organizations,
political parties, and emancipation movements that advocate for policies and programs to address poverty},
organization = {Universidad de Granada/
CBUA},
organization = {The
Spanish Junta de Andalucía},
organization = {P20_00199 and by
the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación with research grants
PID2020-114464RB-I00 and PRE2018-083480},
publisher = {SpringerNature},
keywords = {Poverty · Gender},
keywords = {Attributions for poverty},
keywords = {Support for social protection},
keywords = {Gender stereotypes},
keywords = {Classist attitudes},
title = {Gendered Social Perceptions of “The Poor”: Differences in Individualistic Attributions, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward Social Protection Policies},
doi = {10.1007/s11199-023-01375-9},
author = {Alcañiz Colomer, Joaquín and Moya Morales, Miguel Carlos and Valor Segura, Inmaculada},
}