Cross-cultural measurement equivalence of generalized trust. Evidence from the European Social Survey (2002 and 2004)

Abstract

Generalized trust, Measurement, Cross-cultural equivalence, European Social Survey, Social capital,

Internet Use and Social Capital: The Strength of Virtual Ties

“…First, the survey is part of the European Social survey, funded by the European Commission and has close similarities with the US Generalized Social Survey. It thus provides detailed and accurate measures of sociability and social capital (Reeskens and Hooghe 2008). 4 Second, Luxembourg is a small, highly-developed European country that is well-representative of Northern Europe's population.…”

User co-production of public service delivery: Effects on trust

“…The questionnaire was developed specifically for this study using existing items about motivations (Alford, 2009a), trust (Reeskens and Hooghe, 2008), perceived control (Scholz et al, 2002) and capabilities and resources. To determine how we could adapt some of the items to suit the purpose of our study we interviewed the policy advisor of the municipality, the project leaders of the work corporations.…”

“…For the measurement of generalized trust, a three-item scale was used (Reeskens and Hooghe, 2008). Again, the items were simplified to comply with the language proficiency of the population.…”

“…The presence of a trust network is measured by trust in fellow participants of work corporations (single item). For the measurement of generalized trust, a validated three-item scale was used (Reeskens and Hooghe, 2008). Scale's alpha was good, reaching .75 (t0) and .76 (t1).…”

Assessment of Measurement Equivalence with Cross-National and Longitudinal Surveys in Political Science

“…The most common approach to testing cross-national or longitudinal measurement equivalence is probably the MGCFA model (Jöreskog, 1971;Bollen, 1989;Steenkamp and Baumgartner, 1998). Several studies have used MGCFA to assess measurement equivalence of scales that are part of the ESS and ISSP, like interpersonal, social and political trust (Reeskens and Hooghe, 2008;Van der Veld and Saris, 2011), human values Davidov, 2008Davidov, , 2010a, ethnocentrism and authoritarianism (Billiet, 2003), attitudes towards immigration (Meuleman et al, 2009), public support for democracy (Ariely and Davidov, 2010) as well as nationalism and constructive patriotism (Davidov, 2009(Davidov, , 2010b.…”