TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Do long-term natural disasters influence social trust? Empirical evidence from China
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Li, Yao
A1  - Li, Haoyang
A1  - Ruan, Jianqing
SP  - e7280
EP  - e7280
VL  - 18
IS  - 14
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147280
ID  - ref1
ER  -