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Susan Stewart Bray, Marlene Schommer-Aikins
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2016.10.003
Wichita State University, Wichita, USA
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purpose of this study was to examine health professions students’ beliefs about
the causes of poverty and to identify individual characteristics that may
contribute to these beliefs. Health professions students (n = 268) and professional school counselors (n = 605) completed assessments which assessed three variables: (a)
poverty attributes (internal or person’s fault and external society’s fault);
(b) ways of knowing (connected knowing, i.e., empathic and separate knowing, i.e.,
devil’s advocate); and (c) cultural values of group identity, i.e.,
individualism and, collectivism and power distance, i.e., verticalism and
horizontalism. Analyses revealed that the health professions students weighted
the internal and external causes of poverty equally, whereas, the school
counselors weighted the external causes significantly higher than the internal
causes. Regression with both groups of participants combined indicated that
those with higher verticalism and lower income, were more likely to blame the
person, while those having a multicultural course and higher connected knowing
where less likely to blame the person. Those participants with higher separate
knowing and verticalism were more likely to blame society.
poverty, ways of knowing, social orientation, group identity
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