Current Situation and Influencing Factors of Residents' Social Trust

Abstract

The issue of social trust has been concerned by people throughout the ages, a higher social trust will often promote the development of the country, social harmony. By using literature analysis and questionnaire method and using the data of 2015 China comprehensive Social survey, Descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression analysis were conducted on 7676 valid questionnaires from urban and rural residents in China.on the basis of previous studies, social trust is divided into universal trust, in-circle trust and out-circle trust, to discuss the current situation of social trust and empirically analyze the influencing factors. The results show that the general trust level of the residents and the trust level in the circle is above the medium level, They tend to trust groups with blood and geographical relationship with themselves;while the trust level outside the circle is low, and the social trust level of Chinese residents needs to be improved. From the perspective of influencing factors, The frequency and familiarity of communication with others have a significant impact on and a positive correlation with the three types of trust;frequent and familiar social contacts, sense of justice and happiness in social attitudes, education level and economic level all have a positive effect on social trust. The more people think that life is happy and happy, the easier it is to trust others.Residents living in towns and townships have a higher level of social trust than those living in cities.