The stereotypes and stigma associated with unsheltered people negatively impact their access to support (Omerov et al., Health & Social Care in the Community 28:1–11, 2020), yet there is very minimal research on prejudice towards the unsheltered. Given the state of the economy at the time this research was conducted and the lack of updated research on the topic, the present study had two aims: (1) to develop a revised measure of prejudice towards unsheltered people, and (2) to explore the link between economic anxiety and prejudice towards unsheltered people through the lens of terror-management theory (Greenberg et al., The causes and consequences of a need for self-esteem: A terror management theory. Springer, 1986). Because of this, we hypothesized that greater anxiety about the state of the economy is correlated with greater prejudice towards the unsheltered, and that conservative fiscal beliefs are correlated with more negative attitudes towards the unsheltered. The results support the hypotheses, with more conservative fiscal politics being a significant predictor of this prejudice, as measured by our newly developed updated scale with stronger psychometric properties than the existing measure of this prejudice. Future research in this area should focus on reducing prejudice towards the unsheltered in an effort to increase much-needed economic aid and social support for this social group.

与无庇护者相关的刻板印象和耻辱对他们获得支持的机会产生了负面影响（Omerov et al., Health & Social Care in the Community 28:1–11, 2020），但关于对无庇护者的偏见的研究却很少。鉴于进行本研究时的经济状况以及缺乏有关该主题的最新研究，本研究有两个目的：（1）制定针对无庇护人群的偏见的修订措施，以及（2）探索通过恐怖管理理论的视角，经济焦虑与对无庇护者的偏见之间的联系（格林伯格等人，自尊需求的原因和后果：恐怖管理理论。Springer，1986）。因此，我们假设对经济状况的更大焦虑与对无保障群体的更大偏见相关，而保守的财政信念与对无保障群体的更消极态度相关。结果支持了这些假设，更保守的财政政治是这种偏见的重要预测因素，正如我们新开发的更新量表所测量的那样，该量表比现有的这种偏见测量方法具有更强的心理测量特性。该领域未来的研究应侧重于减少对无庇护者的偏见，努力增加对该社会群体急需的经济援助和社会支持。