Trust Is for the Strong: How Health Status May Influence Generalized and Personalized Trust.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Vuong QH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10486567 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature