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Social trust has plummeted.
This question on social trust has been asked around the world for decades.
The decline in social trust has no single cause, Professor Putnam said; older Americans remain as trusting as ever, but they are increasingly outnumbered by younger, less trusting people.
Research shows that "social trust" has been in decline since 1972, when research began.
Social trust has been often identified as a personality trait (see Allport 1961 or Uslaner 1999, 2000, among others).
Social trust has collapsed.
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Political and social trust have indeed declined over time.
Levels of social trust vary enormously, but countries with high social trust have happier people, better health, more efficient government, more economic growth, and less fear of crime (regardless of whether actual crime rates are increasing or decreasing).
Political efficacy and social trust have statistically significant coefficients in all the specifications, when they are included both separately and jointly.
The questions concerning social participation and social trust have previously been used in Swedish population surveys [e.g. (25)].
Low social participation and low social trust have been shown to be associated with poor somatic and mental health [e.g. (22)].
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