Homeless Affiliation, Location, and Sender Address in Return of Lost Letters

Autor: Paul C. Thompson, Neil P. Coady, F. Stephen Bridges
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. 10:235-242
ISSN: 1573-658X
1053-0789
DOI: 10.1023/a:1016636723628
Popis: A field study used 1008 “lost letters” to test the hypotheses that the differences in returned responses would be attributable to the addressee (i.e., ending homelessness-control or preventing it among youth, veterans, and lesbians) and especially to a socially deviant addressee, that cultural differences between distribution locations might influence returned responses of lost letters, and that sender address (i.e., urban, rural, control) would also influence returned responses. Both addressees' affiliations and distribution location were associated with returned responses, with the lowest rates being for the Prevent Lesbian Homelessness Program affiliate overall and for the city of Pensacola, respectively. Antigay prejudice toward a deviant group may still be strong even when a helping act can be performed without intimate contact involving members of deviant group. Neither distribution location nor the sender or return address conditions were associated with different returned responses. Further testing of the lost letter technique, as a measure of public response, may be warranted.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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