Title: Interpersonal Trust and Its Associations with Respondents’ Community Characteristics
Abstract: Jeong-han Kang and Eehyun Kim aims to identify collective-level determinantsCollective-level determinants of interpersonal trustInterpersonal trust. They link KGSS respondents in the city of SeoulSeoul from 2003 to 2016 to their dong-level information, thanks to the recent digitalization of Korean administrative dataAdministrative data, and conduct multi-level regressions for the statistical estimation. They found that it is not economic disadvantagesEconomic disadvantage at the communityCommunity level but socioeconomic disadvantages at the individual level that decrease residents' interpersonal trust in SeoulSeoul. However, it was also shown that family disruptionsFamily disruption in communities reduce interpersonal trust. In detail, both the mortalityMortality rate and divorce rate at the dong level have a negative impact on residents' interpersonal trust. Findings suggest that strong familial bonds are not necessarily favoritism that hinders generalized trust, but facilitators for trust outside the family via communityCommunity life in Seoul. They argue that their findings in the chapter have implications for the entirety of South Korea as the levels of interpersonal trustInterpersonal trust have been almost identical between SeoulSeoul and South Korea.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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