Assessing the Measurement and Structure of Material Hardship in the United States

Autor/inn/en	Carle, Adam C.; Bauman, Kurt J.; Short, Kathleen
Titel	Assessing the Measurement and Structure of Material Hardship in the United States
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 92 (2009) 1, S.35-51 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-008-9287-7
Schlagwörter	Community Services; Neighborhoods; Housing; Poverty; Surveys; Crime; Evaluation; Well Being; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gemeindenahe Versorgung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Unterkunft; Armut; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Evaluierung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; 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. Desppove te our attempts to tie the hardship measures to objective conditions, subjective evaluations were strongly related to most of the factors. (As Provided).
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