Weiss-Gal Idit, Benyamini Yael, Ginzburg Karni, Savaya Riki, Peled Einat
Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
Soc Work. 2009 Apr;54(2):125-33. doi: 10.1093/sw/54.2.125.
Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service users and 410 social workers located in a variety of human services agencies in central Israel. Findings showed that although social workers and service users expressed similar levels of agreement with regard to motivational and psychological attributions, service users attributed more importance to social-structural causes and to fatalistic causes compared with social workers. Attributions of poverty were associated with economic status among the service users but not among the social workers. The implications of these findings are discussed.
贫困及其成因一直是社会工作专业自其诞生以来主要关注的主题。本研究聚焦于贫困的四种因果归因：社会结构、动机、心理和宿命论。更具体地说，它考察了社会工作者和服务使用者对贫困成因看法上的差异。研究参与者为位于以色列中部各类人类服务机构的401名服务使用者和410名社会工作者。研究结果显示，尽管社会工作者和服务使用者在动机和心理归因方面表达了相似程度的认同，但与社会工作者相比，服务使用者更重视社会结构成因和宿命论成因。贫困归因与服务使用者的经济状况相关，但与社会工作者的经济状况无关。本文讨论了这些研究结果的意义。
