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Re-evaluating the Links Between Social Trust, Institutional Trust and Civic Association

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The authors of this chapter examine data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and, using structural equation modelling techniques, develop measures for three elements of social capital; social trust, institutional trust and civic association. The analysis explores how these three elements are related after controlling for a range of social and psychological factors, including age, gender, income and personality type. The relationship between social trust and institutional trust is found to be resistant to controlling for sociodemographic variables and to controlling for life satisfaction.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK

    Nick Allum

  2. Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

    Roger Patulny

  3. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1B 3DP, UK

    Sanna Read

  4. School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Patrick Sturgis

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  1. School of Geography, Fac. Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

    John Stillwell

  2. School of Geography, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

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  3. Inst. Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology &, University College London, Guilford St. 30, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom

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  4. Dept. Sociology, University of Bristol, Woodland Rd. 12, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, United Kingdom

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Allum, N., Patulny, R., Read, S., Sturgis, P. (2010). Re-evaluating the Links Between Social Trust, Institutional Trust and Civic Association. In: Stillwell, J., Norman, P., Thomas, C., Surridge, P. (eds) Spatial and Social Disparities. Understanding Population Trends and Processes, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8750-8_13

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