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Perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups

This paper first measures and compares the size of middle-income groups in China based on the subjective income evaluation method and the objective criteria. Second, it empirically investigates the differences in government trust of different income groups defined by the subjective evaluation method...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Kezhong, Zhang, Yiqiang, Shi, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10400436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37546455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1157828
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description This paper first measures and compares the size of middle-income groups in China based on the subjective income evaluation method and the objective criteria. Second, it empirically investigates the differences in government trust of different income groups defined by the subjective evaluation method and the objective criteria. It is found that there is a significant difference between the results of the subjective evaluation of income and objective criteria. Compared with individuals in the middle-income group, individuals in the low-income group have a significantly worse overall evaluation of local government and a considerably lower trust in local government officials. On the other hand, individuals in the high-income group have a substantially better assessment of local government and a significantly higher trust in local government officials. However, the differences in trust in government across income groups defined by objective criteria are insignificant overall. In terms of policy insights, the effect of targeting low-income groups determined by subjective evaluation may be more effective in improving people’s trust in the government.
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spelling pubmed-104004362023-08-05 Perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups Jiang, Kezhong Zhang, Yiqiang Shi, Victor Front Psychol Psychology This paper first measures and compares the size of middle-income groups in China based on the subjective income evaluation method and the objective criteria. Second, it empirically investigates the differences in government trust of different income groups defined by the subjective evaluation method and the objective criteria. It is found that there is a significant difference between the results of the subjective evaluation of income and objective criteria. Compared with individuals in the middle-income group, individuals in the low-income group have a significantly worse overall evaluation of local government and a considerably lower trust in local government officials. On the other hand, individuals in the high-income group have a substantially better assessment of local government and a significantly higher trust in local government officials. However, the differences in trust in government across income groups defined by objective criteria are insignificant overall. In terms of policy insights, the effect of targeting low-income groups determined by subjective evaluation may be more effective in improving people’s trust in the government. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10400436/ /pubmed/37546455 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1157828 Text en Copyright © 2023 Jiang, Zhang and Shi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups
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title_fullStr Perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups
title_full_unstemmed Perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups
title_short Perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups
title_sort perception-reality bias: the differences in government trust across income groups
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10400436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37546455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1157828
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