Feeling Poor: The Felt Experience Low-Income Lone Mothers  

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McIntyre, Lynn ; Officer, Suzanne ; Robinson, Lynne M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Affilia vol. 18 no. 3 (Aug. 2003), page 316-331.
Topik: poverty; single mothers; coping
Fulltext: 316.pdf (123.46KB)

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This article describes what it means to feel poor from the perspective of low-income lone mothers. The construct of feeling poor is complex and multifaceted for these mothers, whose common behaviors include self-sacrifice and coping. The authors identify 10feeling domains for these mothers: feeling deprived, righteous, the need for occupational choice, relatively better positioned than others, the need to manage the appearance of poverty, judged/degraded, guilty, isolated, dependent, and despondent.

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