How are personal wealth and trust correlated? A social capital–based cross‐sectional study from Latvia

Q2 Social Sciences

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI:10.1111/issj.12453

Guido Sechi, Dino Borri, Caterina De Lucia, Jurǵis Šķilters

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Abstract The relation between social capital and socio‐economic wealth is a highly debated topic in development studies. This article aims at investigating the relationship between personal wealth and trust. It combines social capital with social categorization theory through a structural equation model based on a data set of over 1000 observations collected in the Republic of Latvia, on the basis of stratified sampling, in 2010, in the wake of a deep financial and economic crisis. Main results suggest evidence of an indirect relationship between wealth and interpersonal trust, with institutional trust and social engagement as mediating factors. This evidence is tested for residence place dimensions, ethno‐linguistic affiliation, education and income. Main results hold for poorer, less educated and rural respondents, whereas significant discrepancies arise for urban respondents. Finally, results highlight the interplay of socio‐economic dimensions and social and cultural identity. This suggests the existence of different dynamics of social capital accumulation at play, depending on various socio‐demographic and socio‐economic dimensions.

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个人财富和信任是如何相关的?拉脱维亚基于社会资本的横断面研究

社会资本与社会经济财富的关系是发展研究中一个备受争议的话题。本文旨在探讨个人财富与信托之间的关系。它通过结构方程模型将社会资本与社会分类理论结合起来，该模型基于2010年在拉脱维亚共和国收集的1000多个观察数据集，基于分层抽样，在深度金融和经济危机之后。主要结果表明，财富与人际信任之间存在间接关系，制度信任和社会参与是中介因素。这一证据在居住地维度、民族语言归属、教育和收入方面进行了测试。主要结果适用于较贫穷、受教育程度较低的农村受访者，而城市受访者则存在显著差异。最后，研究结果强调了社会经济维度与社会文化认同之间的相互作用。这表明，根据不同的社会人口和社会经济维度，存在不同的社会资本积累动态。

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