• DOI:10.1177/1948550617712031
Corpus ID: 149100859

Are Negative Community Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients Associated With Unemployment? Evidence From an Australian Cross-Sectional Sample and Longitudinal Cohort

@article{Schofield2018AreNC,
  title={Are Negative Community Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients Associated With Unemployment? Evidence From an Australian Cross-Sectional Sample and Longitudinal Cohort},
  author={T. Schofield and P. Butterworth},
  journal={Social Psychological and Personality Science},
  year={2018},
  volume={9},
  pages={503 - 515}
}

• T. Schofield, P. Butterworth
• Published 2018
• Psychology
• Social Psychological and Personality Science

Negative stereotyping and stigmatization of welfare recipients may account for the negative outcomes they experience. Much is known about the impact of stigma on welfare take-up, whereas much is hypothesized about the stigma–unemployment association. In two representative Australian samples, we show that individuals previously exposed to unemployment benefits held negative attitudes to welfare recipients only when these reflected those of their community. Temporal patterns in the data suggest… Expand

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