A Note on the Measurement of Generalized Trust of Immigrants and Natives

Autor/in	Dinesen, Peter Thisted
Titel	A Note on the Measurement of Generalized Trust of Immigrants and Natives
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 103 (2011) 1, S.169-177 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-010-9704-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Trust (Psychology); Construct Validity; Immigrants; Sociometric Techniques; Social Indicators; Surveys; Comparative Analysis; Indigenous Populations; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Soziometrie; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Sinti und Roma; Dänemark
Abstract	In recent years, research on the important value of generalized trust has been expanded to include immigrants as a group, but it may be questioned whether the frequently employed generalized trust construct is a valid cross-group measure of this phenomenon for natives and non-Western immigrants in Western societies. Building on a Danish survey of two generations of natives and immigrants, this paper assesses the cross-group validity of the generalized trust measure by testing the measurement invariance and examining the construct validity of this construct. Both tests quite clearly document that the generalized trust construct in fact refers to the same phenomenon for both natives and immigrants and thus can be safely used when comparing levels, causes and consequences of trust for the two groups. (As Provided).
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