Abstract
This study attempts to resolve two issues in social trust research: the negative or positive effect of particularized trust (PT) and the causality between institutional trust (IT) and generalized trust (GT). It analyzes two types of data from South Korea: pooled data of cross-sectional national probability surveys; and online experimental three-wave panel data. Analyses of cross-sectional data suggest new classifications of trust types, family trust (FT) qualitatively different from PT, and the covariates of GT. Panel data analyses bolster the findings from cross-sectional data analysis and confirm a causal antecedence and lagged effects of IT. These findings imply that keys to achieving a high trust society are overcoming intense FT, expanding the radius of PT, and enhancing IT.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 840-855 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | International Journal of Public Opinion Research |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- causal model
- generalized trust
- institutional trust
- particularized trust
- South Korea