Le Minh Tien

Investigating students’ attitudes toward poverty and impoverished persons - a case study: ho chi minh city open university, data of vietnam

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• Le Minh Tien

Journal title : Data in Brief

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Print ISSN : 2352-3409

Page Number : 107788

Journal volume : 40

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Efforts to understand the causes of poverty, how poverty is perceived have become important in the fight to mitigate poverty. In Vietnam, studies on the attitudes of poverty in specific populations, such as Vietnamese students, are rare. Thus, this dataset reports the results collected from 180 social work students and non-social work students of Ho Chi Minh City Open University through attitudes toward poverty and poor people in Vietnam. The Attitude toward Poverty Short Form 21-item scale, developed by Yun & Weaver, was used for the data collection. The survey results showed that when looking for causes of poverty, social work students and non-social work students put the most emphasis on structural factors of poverty. However, social work students, compared with non-social work students, consider personal deficiency and stigma more important. In future, this dataset can serve as a reference source for comparative studies on student’ attitudes toward poverty and impoverished persons and for social work education.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107788

Article Subject Details

• Education and social science
• Education and training

Article Keywords Details

• Social work
• Attitudes
• Poverty
• Social sciences
• Students
• Vietnam

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