A Revised Structural Dimensionality of the Attributions about Poverty and Wealth Scales

Abstract

People’s understanding of the causes of poverty and wealth is an essential trigger for how they interact with these social groups. However, the existing measures that capture these phenomena have several limitations. Therefore, we revised the factorial structure of the poverty and wealth attribution scales to create a unified scale. We back-translated the original items, conducted exploratory and confirmatory analyses, restructured the scale’s factors, and related them with other covariates to test its validity. Our results indicate that these scales differentiated between internal and external attributions, demonstrating that the new factorial structure has a better fit than the original structure has.