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Do Long-Term Natural Disasters Influence Social Trust? Empirical Evidence from China
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Li, Yao Li, Haoyang Ruan, Jianqing |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | The natural environment is one of the most critical factors that profoundly influences human races. Natural disasters may have enormous effects on individual psychological characteristics. Using China’s long-term historical natural disaster dataset from 1470 to 2000 and data from a household survey in 2012, we explore whether long-term natural disasters affect social trust. We find that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between long-term natural disaster frequency and social trust. We further examine the impact of long-term natural disaster frequency on social trust in specific groups of people. Social trust in neighbors and doctors is stronger where long-term natural disasters are more frequent. Our results are robust after we considering the geographical difference. The effect of long-term natural disasters remains positively significant after we divide the samples based on geographical location. Interestingly, the impact of long-term flood frequency is only significant in the South and the impact of long-term drought frequency is only significant in the North. |
| Starting Page | 7280 |
| e-ISSN | 16604601 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph18147280 |
| Journal | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| Issue Number | 14 |
| Volume Number | 18 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-07-07 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Long-term Natural Disasters Social Trust China |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
