Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Soc Sci Res. 2020 Mar;87:102414. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102414. Epub 2020 Mar 9.
There is a growing recognition that trust attitudes towards national and European institutions are systematically related. Despite substantial research interest, the exact nature of this relationship remains unclear. We argue that a person-centered approach with its focus on identifying groups of individuals with similar attitudinal profiles provides a valuable complement to the currently standard variable-oriented approach in addressing this challenge. To illustrate, we examine the extent to which a prior typology of diffuse support for the European Union (EU) would emerge from a multilevel latent class analysis of the Eurobarometer data (2014). Our results provide support for the investigated typology by identifying four distinct trust profiles at the individual level that coalesce into separate latent clusters at the country level. Our findings underscore the value of a person-centered approach for the study of EU support.
人们越来越认识到，对国家和欧洲机构的信任态度是系统相关的。尽管研究兴趣很大，但这种关系的确切性质仍不清楚。我们认为，以个人为中心的方法侧重于识别具有相似态度特征的人群，为解决这一挑战提供了有价值的补充，而目前的标准则是面向变量的方法。为了说明这一点，我们考察了从 2014 年欧洲晴雨表数据的多层次潜在类别分析中是否会出现对欧盟的弥散支持的预先分类。我们的研究结果通过在个人层面上确定四个不同的信任特征，并在国家层面上合并为单独的潜在聚类，为所研究的分类提供了支持。我们的研究结果强调了以个人为中心的方法在研究欧盟支持方面的价值。
