Casual Attributions for Poverty among Humanitarian Social Development Workers and Their Beneficiaries

Demissie, Bati

dc.contributor.author	Demissie, Bati
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-07T04:23:47Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-07T04:23:47Z
dc.date.issued	8/7/2014
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7624
dc.description	A Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree ofMaster ofArts in Social Psychology	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The presence of poverty around the world is a serIOUS Issue to national governments and international organizations. Nongovernmental humanitarian organizations have sprung up in an attempt to reach out and alleviate this problem. As nonprofit organizations and concerned governments move ahead to fight poverty, the role that the social development workers are playing become an important factor in determining the effectiveness of the mission of these organizations. The issue of poverty in third world countries also brings up a debate over its causes; ultimately, who is to blame for the plague of the poor. Are the poor themselves at fault, because of some flaw in attitudes towards work or personal capabilities? Or are external forces to blame possibly the government, the weather, or another even the imposition and/or exploitation of other governments? The current literature divides attributions of poverty into three sources: individual, structural and fatalistic. Descriptive survey design was employed. The target population of this study was 120 social development workers and 26816 beneficiaries that found in Wolaita, Kembata and Tembaro, and Gamo Gofa zones The questionnaire was adapted from Nasser and Aboucher (200 I), and included 30 items. It was administered to 84 social development workers and 275 beneficiaries from World Vision Ethiopia Soddo Cluster program operation area. Multistage sampling technique was used to select the samples. The collected data were coded, entered, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS Version 20. Frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation were employed to describe socio-demographic and attributions for poverty variables. In addition, one sample t-test, independent t- test and ordinal logistic regression were used to answer research questions. Findings showed that social developments workers were more inclined to attribute poverty to structural factors. The beneficiaries attributed the cause of poverty to the individualistic factors. Socio-demographic variables significantly affect the responses given by respondents on poverty attrition, which suggest that respondents had different concepts for explaining poverty. The findings will help policy maker's economist, politicians, and other stakeholder to better understand causes ofthe poverty. Keywords: Poverty; Attributionsfor poverty; Beneficiary; Social development workers	en_US
dc.subject	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	en_US
dc.title	Casual Attributions for Poverty among Humanitarian Social Development Workers and Their Beneficiaries	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US