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Porträtt Jan Mewes. Foto.

Jan Mewes

Docent | Universitetslektor

Porträtt Jan Mewes. Foto.

Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States

Författare

  • Jan Mewes
  • Malcolm Fairbrother
  • Nick Giordano
  • Cary Wu
  • Rima Wilkes

Summary, in English

The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for this decrease. We use three-wave panel data from the General Social Survey (2006–2014) to study the effects of four possible individual-level sources of changes in social trust: job loss, social ties, income, and confidence in political institutions. Findings from fixed-effects linear regression models suggest that all but social ties matter. We then use 1973–2018 GSS data to predict trust based on observed values for unemployment, confidence in institutions, and satisfaction with income, versus an alternative counterfactual scenario in which the values of those three predictors are held constant at their mean levels in the early 1970s. Predicted values from these two scenarios differ substantially, suggesting that decreasing confidence in institutions and increasing unemployment scarring may explain about half of the observed decline in US social trust.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi
  • Genetisk och molekylär epidemiologi
  • EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Social Science Research

Volym

95

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Academic Press

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Three Worlds of Trust: A Longitudinal Study of Welfare States, Life-Course Risks, and Social Trust

Forskningsgrupp

  • Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0049-089X