Assessing the Measurement and Structure of Material Hardship in the United States
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| Title: | Assessing the Measurement and Structure of Material Hardship in the United States |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Carle, Adam C., Bauman, Kurt J., Short, Kathleen |
| Source: | Social Indicators Research. May 2009 92(1):35-51. |
| Availability: | Springer. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: service-ny@springer.com; Web site: http://www.springerlink.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Community Services, Neighborhoods, Housing, Poverty, Surveys, Crime, Evaluation, Well Being |
| Geographic Terms: | United States |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-008-9287-7 |
| ISSN: | 0303-8300 |
| 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. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Accession Number: | EJ834515 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0303-8300 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-008-9287-7 |
