Feeling Poor: The Felt Experience Low-Income Lone Mothers

This article describes what it means to feel poor from the perspective of low-income lone mothers. The construct of feeling poor is complex and multifaceted for these mothers, whose common behaviors include self-sacrifice and coping. The authors identify 10 feeling domains for these mothers: feeling...

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Published in:Affilia 2003-10, Vol.18 (3), p.316-331
Main Authors: McIntyre, Lynn, Officer, Suzanne, Robinson, Lynne M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotions
Experience
Experiences
Low Income Groups
Low income women
Poverty
Single Mothers
Single parents
Welfare Recipients
Women
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Summary:This article describes what it means to feel poor from the perspective of low-income lone mothers. The construct of feeling poor is complex and multifaceted for these mothers, whose common behaviors include self-sacrifice and coping. The authors identify 10 feeling domains for these mothers: feeling deprived, righteous, the need for occupational choice, relatively better positioned than others, the need to manage the appearance of poverty, judged/degraded, guilty, isolated, dependent, and despondent.
ISSN:0886-1099
1552-3020
DOI:10.1177/0886109903254581