All We Need Is Trust: How the COVID-19 Outbreak Reconfigured Trust in Italian Public Institutions.

ABSTRACT: The central focus of this research is the fast and crucial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a crucial psychological, relational, and political construct: trust. We investigate how the consequences of the pandemic, in terms of healthcare, state intervention and impositions, and daily life and habits, have affected trust in public institutions in Italy, at the time when the contagion was rapidly spreading in the country (early March 2020). In this survey, addressed to 4260 Italian citizens, we analyzed and measured such impact, focusing on various aspects of trust. This attention to multiple dimensions of trust constitutes the key conceptual advantage of this research, since trust is a complex and layered construct, with its own internal dynamics. In particular, the analysis focuses on how

SUBMITTER: Falcone R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7562978 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature