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Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust
Political trust is a perennially important concern and the events of the last few years have, in many ways, heightened this importance. The relevant scholarship has done much to meet this challenge but continues to struggle with definitional unclarities and an inability to provide accounts that cons...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31091243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215835 |
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author | Hamm, Joseph A. Smidt, Corwin Mayer, Roger C. |
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description | Political trust is a perennially important concern and the events of the last few years have, in many ways, heightened this importance. The relevant scholarship has done much to meet this challenge but continues to struggle with definitional unclarities and an inability to provide accounts that consistently operate as expected. The current research seeks to test the potential of a classic model of trust from the organizational sciences that makes specific arguments regarding the psychological nature and mechanisms of the construct in helping to address these concerns. Using data from a national convenience sample, we provide preliminary evidence which suggests that measures and models addressing this theoretical account of psychological trust form unidimensional and reliable measures that may more precisely explain the process of political trust and outperform current measures in predicting relevant correlates. We conclude by discussing the implications and limitations of our work and, in so doing, lay a foundation for a new research agenda for political trust. |
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spelling | pubmed-65197952019-05-31 Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust Hamm, Joseph A. Smidt, Corwin Mayer, Roger C. PLoS One Research Article Political trust is a perennially important concern and the events of the last few years have, in many ways, heightened this importance. The relevant scholarship has done much to meet this challenge but continues to struggle with definitional unclarities and an inability to provide accounts that consistently operate as expected. The current research seeks to test the potential of a classic model of trust from the organizational sciences that makes specific arguments regarding the psychological nature and mechanisms of the construct in helping to address these concerns. Using data from a national convenience sample, we provide preliminary evidence which suggests that measures and models addressing this theoretical account of psychological trust form unidimensional and reliable measures that may more precisely explain the process of political trust and outperform current measures in predicting relevant correlates. We conclude by discussing the implications and limitations of our work and, in so doing, lay a foundation for a new research agenda for political trust. Public Library of Science 2019-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6519795/ /pubmed/31091243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215835 Text en © 2019 Hamm et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hamm, Joseph A. Smidt, Corwin Mayer, Roger C. Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
title | Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
title_full | Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
title_fullStr | Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
title_short | Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
title_sort | understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31091243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215835 |
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