This study examines people's perceptions of poverty and social exclusion in 12 countries in Europe: and the United Kingdom. Data come from the 1993 Euro-barometer and a model of the dynamics among feelings of social exclusion, community poverty and social exclusion, and economic pressure was tested for the goodness-of-fit using structural equation models (AMOS 4.0) techniques by the method of maximum likelihood. The goodness-of-fit provided evidence that the hypothesized model was stable. The

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... sults also showed significant differences in the attitudes toward poverty and social exclusion according to country of residence, gender, and age of the participants.