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T1 Actors, observers, and causal attributions of homelessness: Differences in attribution for the causes of homelessness among domiciled and homeless people in Madrid
A1 Vázquez Cabrera, José Juan
A1 Panadero Herrero, Sonia
A1 Zuñiga Rivas, Claudia
K1 Homeless
K1 Causal attributions
K1 Poverty
K1 Social exclusion
K1 Education
K1 Psychology
K1 Educación
K1 Psicología
AB The study analyzes the differences in causal attributions of homelessness and attributions of responsibility among the members of three groups: Homeless Group, consisting of a representative sample of homeless people in Madrid, Spain (n= 188), Domiciled Service-Users Group, consisting of people at risk of homelessness (n=164), and Domiciled Non Service-Users Group, consisting of people at no imminent risk of homelessness (n=180). The Domiciled Service-Users Group and Domiciled Non Service-Users Group were matched to the Homeless Group for sex, age and nationality. The paper also analyzes homeless people's causal attributions as regards their own situation. The results show that compared to the Domiciled Non Service-Users Group, a higher percentage of members of the Homeless Group and Domiciled Service-Users Group attributed homelessness to individualistic causes, and they blamed homeless people for their situation to a greater extent. The results also show that there was no "actor-observer bias” in causal attributions for homelessness in Madrid.
SN 1939-0025
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27758
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27758
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024