Is Trust in Others Declining in America? An Age–Period–Cohort Analysis

Robinson, Robert V.; Jackson, Elton F.

doi:10.1006/ssre.2000.0692

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“…6 Both age and education have in previous work been shown to be strongly associated with trust; in particular, individuals tend to become more trusting between 18 and 40, and with higher educational attainment (Robinson & Jackson, 2001). In the absence of data on individuals' income levels that are fully comparable across countries, we follow Paxton (2007) in introducing a dummy variable equal to 1 when a respondent is employed and a measure of occupational prestige (based on Ganzeboom, et al, 1992) to capture the idea that individuals with more limited resources and a more disadvantaged position in life may find it harder and/or riskier to trust others (e.g., Whiteley, 1999;Newton, 1999).…”

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Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

Geys

2012

Journal of Civil Society

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Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

Geys

2012

Journal of Civil Society

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“…Social trust concerns the trustworthiness of the abstract, generalized other about whom little information exists (Robinson and Jackson 2001). As such, social trust serves as a heuristic when individuals interact with anonymous others and is therefore of great import in increasingly atomistic modern societies.…”

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Trusting the State, Trusting Each Other? The Effect of Institutional Trust on Social Trust

2015

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Trust in state institutions is a prominent explanation of social trust. However, previous-mainly cross-sectional-analyses provide limited causal evidence regarding the relationship between institutional trust and social trust and it is thus essentially unknown whether an observed relationship reflects reverse causality (social trust forming institutional trust), or both forms of trust reflecting deep-seated dispositions (common confounding). Against the backdrop of the shortcomings of previous cross-sectional analyses, this paper utilizes two Danish panel surveys containing measures of both types of trust for the same individuals surveyed at multiple points in time over a long time-span (up to 18 years) to address the potentially reverse and/or spurious relationship. Using individual fixed effects and cross-lagged panel models, the results provide strong evidence of trust in state institutions exercising a causal impact on social trust, whereas the evidence for a reverse relationship is limited.

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“…Many empirical studies document that a decline in indicators of social participation has occurred in the last decades (Paxton 1999, Putnam 2000, Robinson and Jackson 2001, Costa and Kahn 2003, Bilancini et al 2011 5 . The most obvious suspect behind the tendency to reduce relational activities and drop out of community affairs is pervasive busyness.…”

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See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital

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Sodini

2012

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last decades. The responsibility of social disengagement has been often attributed to pervasive busyness and the rising pressure of time. In this paper we argue that computer-mediated interaction, and particularly online networking, can help mitigate this downward trend. We develop a logical framework for assessing the role of the internet in the evolution of social participation. We analyze an economy where agents can develop their social interactions through two main modes of participation, one encompassing both online networking and face to face interactions, and another solely based on physical encounters. We study the interdependence between the rise in the pressure of time and the variation in the relative performance of the two strategies of participation.

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Is Trust in Others Declining in America? An Age–Period–Cohort Analysis

Cited by 221 publications

References 19 publications

Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

Trusting the State, Trusting Each Other? The Effect of Institutional Trust on Social Trust

See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital

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