Tang Yujie, Gong Zhe
College of Psychology, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.
Present Address: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Key Laboratory of Psychology and Behavior of Discipline Inspection and Supervision, Sichuan, China.
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 9:1-11. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04448-w.
Trust Game and survey trust are the two most popular measurements in the field of trust research, but most studies conducted in developing countries have found low or even insignificant correlations between them, we therefore validated this phenomenon in the cultural context of the largest developing country, China. Within-country differences can be of the same magnitude as the between country differences, especially in a culturally diverse China. Thus, we focus on comparing the characteristics of trust in the South and North regions of China. Through zero-order correlation and hierarchical regression analysis, our findings are consistent with those of numerous developing countries: Trust Game is lowly correlated with in-group trust survey and not with out-group trust survey. On the other hand, we found that Chinese individuals exhibit a distinct pattern of in-group trust, and there is no fundamental difference in the characteristics of trust between the South and the North.
信任博弈和调查信任是信任研究领域中最常用的两种测量方法，但大多数在发展中国家进行的研究发现，它们之间的相关性很低，甚至微不足道。因此，我们在中国这个最大的发展中国家的文化背景下验证了这一现象。国内差异可能与国家间差异一样大，尤其是在中国这样一个文化多元的国家。因此，我们着重比较中国南方和北方地区的信任特征。通过零阶相关分析和分层回归分析，我们的研究结果与众多发展中国家的研究结果一致：信任博弈与内群体信任调查的相关性较低，与外群体信任调查则无相关性。另一方面，我们发现中国个体在内群体信任方面呈现出独特的模式，而且南方和北方在信任特征上没有根本差异。
