Grabowski Lorie J Schabo
Life Course Center in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
J Poverty. 2006;10(3):69-91. doi: 10.1300/J134v10n03_04.
The massive federal welfare reform effort of 1996 contained an inherent assumption that welfare use negatively affected recipients' sense of self-efficacy. Little research attention has been given to examining this assumption. Using in-depth interviews, I explore economic self-efficacy perceptions of 31 young mothers who have experience receiving welfare. Financial choice, they said, was central to their perceptions of themselves as economic agents and therefore to their sense of self-efficacy. Findings presented here detail women's perceptions of their own economic abilities, as well as how welfare receipt, the character of work, and experiences related to parenting in poverty all affected women's opportunities for exercising agency.
1996年大规模的联邦福利改革举措内含一个固有假设，即福利使用会对受助者的自我效能感产生负面影响。但很少有研究关注对这一假设的检验。通过深入访谈，我探究了31位有过领取福利经历的年轻母亲的经济自我效能感认知。她们表示，财务选择对于她们将自己视为经济主体的认知至关重要，因而对她们的自我效能感也很关键。此处呈现的研究结果详细说明了女性对自身经济能力的认知，以及福利领取、工作性质和贫困育儿经历如何影响女性行使自主权的机会。
