Open AccessMeasuring the trust in the European values study and the European social survey
Author(s) -
Miloš Bešić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2406-0712
pISSN - 0038-0318
DOI - 10.2298/soc2102419b
Subject(s) - european social survey , confirmatory factor analysis , interpersonal communication , construct (python library) , multilevel model , social psychology , psychology , politics , social trust , latent variable , test (biology) , descriptive statistics , regression analysis , interpersonal relationship , survey data collection , econometrics , structural equation modeling , sociology , political science , statistics , social capital , social science , economics , mathematics , computer science , paleontology , law , biology , programming language
In this paper, we compare the latent construct measurement of political and interpersonal trust in two researches: the European Values Study and the European Social Survey. The main goal was to estimate the validity of measuring the respective concepts. In order to achieve this goal, we conducted a number of Principal Component Analyses and Confirmatory Factor Analyses. Additionally, we used multilevel regression modelling to test and compare the effect of socio-demographic variables on political and interpersonal trust in both researches. We identified that socio-demographic predictors had a similar effect on both types of trust. The paper is complemented with descriptive data that portray the differences among countries when it comes to interpersonal and political trust.