@article{ref1,
title="Do long-term natural disasters influence social trust? Empirical evidence from China",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2021",
author="Li, Yao and Li, Haoyang and Ruan, Jianqing",
volume="18",
number="14",
pages="e7280-e7280",
abstract="The natural environment is one of the most critical factors that profoundly influences human races. Natural disasters may have enormous effects on individual psychological characteristics. Using China's long-term historical natural disaster dataset from 1470 to 2000 and data from a household survey in 2012, we explore whether long-term natural disasters affect social trust. We find that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between long-term natural disaster frequency and social trust. We further examine the impact of long-term natural disaster frequency on social trust in specific groups of people. Social trust in neighbors and doctors is stronger where long-term natural disasters are more frequent. Our results are robust after we considering the geographical difference. The effect of long-term natural disasters remains positively significant after we divide the samples based on geographical location. Interestingly, the impact of long-term flood frequency is only significant in the South and the impact of long-term drought frequency is only significant in the North.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph18147280",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147280"
}