Empirical Cross-National Study of Social Structure and Social Values – Focusing their relations with Social Trust

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22330154
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: SASAKI Masamichi 中央大学, 文学部, 教授 (30142326)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YOSHINO Ryozo 統計数理研究所, データ科学研究系, 教授 (60220711) ; YASUNO Satoko 中央大学, 文学部, 准教授 (60314895) ; YANO Yoshiro 中央大学, 文学部, 准教授 (70282548) ; SHUTO Toshikazu 兵庫教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 准教授 (60346294) ; MORI Hideki 兵庫教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 准教授 (00274027)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TANOSAKI Akio 中央大学, 文学部, 名誉教授 (90055062) ; ISHIKAWA Akihiro 中央大学, 文学部, 名誉教授 (80055178) ; HAYASHI Fumi 中央大学, 社会科学研究所, 客員研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 価値観 / 信頼感 / 国際比較研究 / 意識調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on surveys carried out among eight nations (adding Finland to the United States,Japan, Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Taiwan), this study attempted to determine relationships between trust and social values. Among some of the topics of the questions used in this study were one's own lifestyle, concern about social, political, and economic problems, opinions about reciprocity of trust toward others, human nature as fundamentally good or bad, abidingness, right and wrong, marriage, and religious beliefs. Using multiple regression analysis it was found that reciprocity of trust toward others and human nature as fundamentally good have a positive effect on trust. Also, using correspondence analysis, it was found that when comparing two levels of trust (i.e., the lowest and the highest among four levels) many of the social values have distinguishable characteristics to their configurations in Euclidian space among the eight nations for both levels of trust.

Free Research Field

社会学