Languages and Education Consultant

Dissertation presented in December 2009 in ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTRACT

In this correlational study the aim was to analyse aspects that may influence Relative Deprivation, using to that effect various variables presented on studies developed by Vala, Lopes and Brito (1999), Vala, Brito and Lopes (1999) and Lima and Vala (2003a, 2003b); such as Life Satisfaction, Collective Self-Esteem, Interdependence, Legitimacy of Asymmetries, Interiorization of Social Norms, Belief in Social Change, Participation in Collective Actions and Control over Life and over the Social System. Participants were 121 gypsy individuals, 38 female (31.4%) and 83 males (68.6%) and the results showed that the number of individuals with double relative deprivation is significant; and that respondents showed high scores in Life Satisfaction, Collective Self-Esteem, Belief in Social Change, Legitimacy of Asymmetries, Interiorization of Social Norms; and low scores in Participation in Collective Actions. Correlation analysis showed several associations with the relative deprivation indexes, suggesting future paths of research. We performed yet further analysis of variance using only Intergrupal Relative Deprivation indexes as theoretical dependent variables, and there have been several significant differences, namely that Participation in Collective Action occurs primarily in deprived individuals and that in the index of Relative Deprivation related with the relationship with the authorities, Law and Justice, the Collective Self-Esteem is more intense in deprived individuals and Legitimacy of Asymmetries in Gratified; there were no significant differences on Institutional Relative Deprivation.