Vuong Quan-Hoang, Nguyen Phuong-Loan, Jin Ruining, Nguyen Minh-Hoang, Le Tam-Tri
Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research, Phenikaa University, Hanoi 100803, Vietnam.
Spanish Department, Hanoi University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Aug 23;11(17):2373. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11172373.
In the trust-health relationship, how trusting other people in society may promote good health is a topic often examined. However, the other direction of influence-how health may affect trust-has not been well explored. In order to investigate this possible effect, we employed the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics to go deeper into the information processing mechanisms underlying the expressions of trust. Conducting a Bayesian analysis on a dataset of 1237 residents from Cali, Colombia, we found that general health status is positively associated with generalized trust, but recent experiences of illnesses/injuries have a negative moderating effect. Personalized trust is largely unchanged across different general health conditions, but the trust level becomes higher with recent experiences of illnesses/injuries. Psychophysiological mechanisms of increasing information filtering intensity toward unfamiliar sources during a vulnerable state of health is a plausible explanation of found patterns in generalized trust. Because established personal relationships are reinforced information channels, personalized trust is not affected as much. Rather, the results suggest that people may rely even more on loved ones when they are in bad health conditions. This exploratory study shows that the trust-health relationship can be examined from a different angle that may provide new insights.
在信任与健康的关系中，社会中人们如何信任他人可能促进健康是一个经常被研究的话题。然而，另一个影响方向——健康如何影响信任——尚未得到充分探索。为了研究这种可能的影响，我们采用了贝叶斯思维海绵框架（BMF）分析方法，以更深入地探究信任表达背后的信息处理机制。对来自哥伦比亚卡利的1237名居民的数据集进行贝叶斯分析后，我们发现总体健康状况与广义信任呈正相关，但近期的疾病/受伤经历具有负向调节作用。在不同的总体健康状况下，个性化信任基本保持不变，但随着近期疾病/受伤经历的增加，信任水平会升高。在健康脆弱状态下，对不熟悉来源增加信息过滤强度的心理生理机制，是广义信任中发现的模式的一个合理的解释。由于已建立的个人关系是强化的信息渠道，个性化信任受到的影响较小。相反，结果表明人们在健康状况不佳时可能会更加依赖所爱的人。这项探索性研究表明，可以从一个可能提供新见解的不同角度来审视信任与健康的关系。
