Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study used Yun and Weaver's (2010) Attitudes toward Poverty Short Form (ATP-SF) of twenty-one items on a Likert-type scale to determine the poverty attitudes of 309 principals in a rural Appalachian state in the United States.The study compared the poverty attitudes from the ATP-SF scaled score as a dependent variable to the following demographics which were used as independent variables: social class origin, political orientation, gender, age, ethnicity/race, religiosity, Appalachian identity, experience, poverty training, school socioeconomic status and locale.This study replicated the factor structure found by Yun & Weaver (2010) and achieved a Cronbach's Alpha of .81.Three factors established for the scale were personal deficiency, stigma and structural perspective.The overall score poverty attitudes by respondents was 77.60 points which produced positive attitudes results on the interpretive scale.The study used both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, including a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for significance testing of the independent variables.A stepwise regression was conducted to determine if any independent variables were predictive for poverty attitudes.Political orientation was identified as statistically significant at the p ≤ .001.Liberal views were found to have more positive attitudes of poverty (versus conservative).Age was found to be statistically significant on the overall scale at p ≤ .001and achieved a p ≤ .001 on the factor of stigma.Older respondents had "poverty training" contribute to predicting attitudes toward the poor and (2) school demographics (in particular, socioeconomic status and locale) contribute to predicting attitudes toward the poor?These questions will be answered using the following research objectives. Research objective one.Describe West Virginia public school principals on the following demographic characteristics: A. Social class origin B.
Author: Melissa L. Gholson
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Topic: Education in Rural Contexts
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2522175869