Despite the relevance of social exclusion and economic inequality for homelessness, empirical studies investigating how these issues relate to homeless people's psychological well-being are scarce. We aimed to fill this gap by conducting two quasi-experimental studies on homeless and non-homeless groups. The first study (N = 200) showed that homeless (vs. non-homeless) people presented higher levels of resignation, characterized by depression, alienation, helplessness, and unworthiness (Williams, 2009). The second study (N = 183) replicated the findings from Study 1 and showed that perceived economic inequality could increase homeless people's resignation by emphasizing perceptions of social exclusion. Additional analyses found that identification with the stigmatized homeless group could mediate the relationship between perceived inequality and social exclusion, increasing the resignation. Overall, the results showed that chronic social exclusion of homeless people is associated with higher levels of resignation. Moreover, they showed the role of perceived economic inequality and homeless group stigmatized identification as group-specific mechanisms favouring social exclusion and ultimately worsening psychological well-being.

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在阶梯的最底层：社会排斥、经济不平等和耻辱如何增加无家可归者的辞职

尽管社会排斥和经济不平等与无家可归者有关，但调查这些问题与无家可归者心理健康有何关系的实证研究却很少。我们的目的是通过对无家可归者和非无家可归者群体进行两项准实验研究来填补这一空白。第一项研究（N  = 200）表明，无家可归者（与非无家可归者相比）表现出更高程度的辞职，其特点是抑郁、疏远、无助和无价值（Williams，2009）。第二项研究（N  = 183）重复了研究 1 的结果，并表明，感知到的经济不平等可能会通过强调社会排斥的看法来增加无家可归者的辞职率。其他分析发现，对被污名化的无家可归群体的认同可能会调节感知不平等与社会排斥之间的关系，从而增加辞职率。总体而言，结果表明，无家可归者的长期社会排斥与较高的辞职率有关。此外，他们还表明，感知到的经济不平等和无家可归群体的污名化认同是有利于社会排斥并最终恶化心理健康的特定群体机制的作用。