Assessing the Measurement and Structure of Material Hardship in the United States |
| |
Authors: | Adam C Carle Kurt J Bauman Kathleen Short |
| |
Institution: | (1) Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA;(2) U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC, USA |
| |
Abstract: | Previous attempts to measure material well-being or hardship have not made clear the relationship of individual items to the
broader concept of hardship. The current study used the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a large-scale U.S.
survey with a large number of questions on the material circumstances of households to create a measurement model of hardship
that takes this relationship into account. A higher-order model with five-first-order factors: consumer durables, resources
available to meet needs, housing conditions, neighborhood problems and crime, and community services, and a single second-order
factor hardship fit the data well, with the “Housing” and “Neighborhood” first-order factors most strongly related to the higher-order hardship
construct. Despite our attempts to tie the hardship measures to objective conditions, subjective evaluations were strongly
related to most of the factors.
|
| |
Keywords: | Measurement Poverty Material hardship Well-Being |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|