Kye Bongoh, Hwang Sun-Jae
Department of Sociology, Kookmin University, 77 Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02707, South Korea.
Department of Sociology, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea.
Res Soc Stratif Mobil. 2020 Aug;68:100523. doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100523. Epub 2020 Jun 18.
This study aims to exploit the situations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in South Korea to identify the causal effect of a pandemic crisis and institutional responses on social trust. With unique panel data collected in the course of the COVID-19 in South Korea and the use of individual fixed-effects models, we examined how social trust in various social institutions changed and identified a causal effect of crisis management on social trust. According to the results, trust in South Korean society, people, and the central and local governments improved substantially, whereas trust in judicature, the press, and religious organizations sharply decreased. Improvement in trust in the central and local governments was associated with proactive responses to the pandemic crisis, and failure to take appropriate actions was responsible for the deteriorating trust in religious organizations. These findings illustrate the importance of risk management in trust formation and imply that South Korea may be transforming from a low-trust to a high-trust society.
本研究旨在利用韩国新冠疫情危机所带来的情况，以确定疫情危机及制度应对措施对社会信任的因果效应。通过在韩国新冠疫情期间收集的独特面板数据，并运用个体固定效应模型，我们考察了对各类社会机构的社会信任是如何变化的，并确定了危机管理对社会信任的因果效应。结果显示，韩国社会、民众以及中央和地方政府的信任大幅提升，而对司法机构、媒体和宗教组织的信任则急剧下降。对中央和地方政府信任的提升与对疫情危机的积极应对相关，而未能采取适当行动则导致了对宗教组织信任的恶化。这些发现说明了风险管理在信任形成中的重要性，并意味着韩国可能正在从一个低信任社会转变为高信任社会。
