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Abstract
In many developed countries or regions, wide income disparities increase
the difficulty in reducing poverty. In their day‐to‐day lives, poor
people often feel less accepted by the society. The failures in
communicating with social groups and receiving social support lead to
negative consequences on individual well‐being and higher level of
social exclusion. Based on the debate upon alternative approaches to
conceptualizing and operationalizing poverty, this study attempts to
verify a mediation model with data from a household survey (N =
1,202) in Hong Kong. The results of structural equation modelling reveal
that deprivation is a more powerful indicator than income poverty for
specifying the negative relations of poverty with interpersonal
communication, social support, and social acceptance; the negative
impact of deprivation on social acceptance can be reduced by two
significant mediators of interpersonal communication and social support.
The results are discussed in terms of directions for future research
and policy and welfare intervention.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 889-902 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Social Policy and Administration |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 22 Aug 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Special Issue: Poverty and social disadvantage in Hong KongThe work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 4003‐SPPR‐11).
Keywords
- deprivation
- interpersonal communication
- poverty
- social acceptance
- social support
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Trends and Implications of Poverty and Social Disadvantages in Hong Kong: A Multi-disciplinary and Longitudinal Study (LU Part)
WONG, H., BRADSHAW, J., CHEN, J., CHUNG, Y. N. R., GORDON, D., GRIFFITHS, S. M., HUANG, B., LAU, C. H. J., LAU, K. W. M., LEE, W. Y. J., MOK, K. H. J., PANTAZIS, C., SAUNDERS, P., WONG, M. & WONG, S. Y.
Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (HKSAR)
1/04/12 → 30/03/17
Project: Grant Research