Breaking the Poverty Trap: A Psychological Framework for Sustainably Facilitating Agency and Behavior Change in Development Aid Beneficiaries

Mine Sato (), Nobuo Sayanagi () and Toru Yanagihara ()
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Mine Sato: Yokohama National University
Nobuo Sayanagi: Yamanashi Eiwa College
Toru Yanagihara: Takushoku University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Empowerment Through Agency Enhancement, 2022, pp 89-121 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to present a theoretical framework on facilitating agency that would be applicable to aiding, assessing, and researching the psychology of people facing difficulties such as extreme poverty. The framework is based on self-determination theory (SDT) and also draws from behavior modification approaches. It is argued that for such people, for autonomy support to be effective, it is necessary to provide support for the needs for competence and relatedness. Based on the modified SDT framework, aid paradigms such as conditional cash transfers (CCTs), the life improvement approach (LIA), the smallholder horticultural empowerment project (SHEP), and the freedom for enhancing empowerment (FrEE) approaches are examined, and future research directions are discussed.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1227-6_6

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