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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2011, 1, 106-113 doi:10.4236/ap.2011.13016 Published Online October 2011 (/journal/ap) Analysis of Low-Income Single Women’s Cognitive of Poverty Yijun Chen, Cui Chen, Yan Gu School of Education, Soochow University, Soochow Email: herb.ij@; nfgy2006@; gguuyyaann@163.com Received: Apr. 29th, 2011; revised Jun. 13th, 2011; accepted Jul. 11th, 2011. Abstract: The cognition of poverty of low-income single women affects their adaptation of life directly. This research adopts depth interview method to discuss with 23 low-income single mothers in sochoow area to discover their cognition of poverty. The results showed that: 1) The reason that cause single-mother poor is that economic conditions originally is bad, the manly economical bearer have gone, and their income is low, but the spending is big, and they 2) The primary troubling that the single mother faced is economical problems, fo- llowed by the worry of take care of children, and lack of support and mental distress. 3) Most of them could face the double vulnerable——low-income and single undisguisedly, but a few of them fell despised when others mention about low-income or single parent. 4) Increasing income and reducing expenditure are the main methods to improve economic conditions, some of the single mother adapt to their present situation through change their attitude. 5) There are some community to assist single mother such as Government, Children and Teenagers’ Fund and the measures of help poor students in school. 6) Low income single mother always want to get rid of poor through work to improve the income, counting on children or hope to get