According to an Ifop study commissioned by the foundation, renouncing essential purchases generates frustration, a feeling of injustice but also anger.
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Frustration, injustice and anger. An Ifop survey published on Monday, November 22 points to the “strong psychological and symbolic impact” material precariousness in the lives of the people concerned. This study, carried out for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and the Agency for donation in kind, shows that the financial situation has deteriorated “since the start of the coronavirus crisis” for more than a third of the French (36%).
According to this online survey conducted from September 28 to October 6 among a representative sample of 2,000 people aged 18 and over, the inability to access certain products leads to other deprivations according to a “logic of renunciation”. Nearly one in three French people (31%) have to give up very regularly (more than four times a month) the purchase of essential non-food products.
This phenomenon particularly affects young people (39% are under 35), precarious workers (51% of self-employed, 49% of temporary workers) and households with the lowest incomes (around 1,300 euros). For the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, “Material precariousness cannot be reduced to the mere idea of ’lack’. It has more serious consequences.”
It generates frustration for 56% of those questioned, a feeling of injustice (41%) but also anger for 28%. The study also raises the question of the political translation of these feelings, which turn out to be all the more marked as we feel close to the protest movement of “yellow vests”, born in the fall of 2018. Frustration reaches 59% among “yellow vests”, injustice 61% and anger 44%.