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Title: Generalized Trust Questions
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1. Uslaner, Eric M.
Generalized Trust Questions
In: Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies. John H.Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw, eds., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011: 101-112
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keyword(s): American National Election Studies (ANES); Parent-Child Interaction; Political Attitudes/Behaviors/Efficacy; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Trust; Volunteer Work; Voting Behavior

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The ANES and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) will begin a long-term collaboration focusing on parent-child socialization. This collaboration offers a unique opportunity to trace the roots of youth socialization on political and social attitudes. The ANES-NLSY surveys will include key measures of social capital— most notably, generalized trust. The ANES and NLSY have traditionally used different questions to measure generalized trust. The 2006 ANES Pilot Study asked both questions (as well as two new measures). The ANES may change the wording of the traditional “standard” question to the NLSY measure— or perhaps to one of the two new measures. In this report, I investigate how well these measures perform in comparison with each other and with theoretical expectations about the determinants and consequences of trust. Would a change in question wording make a difference?
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Uslaner, Eric M. "Generalized Trust Questions" In: Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies. John H.Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw, eds., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011: 101-112