Social capital and the COVID-19 pandemic threat: The Russian experience.

ABSTRACT: Social capital is an important resource for the wellbeing of both the individual and society. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have been conducted to explore the role of social capital in coping with the negative consequences of the pandemic. However, how the pandemic itself can affect the social capital of people has yet to be studied. Try to fill this gap, we aimed at testing the association between the individually perceived coronavirus threat and such indicators of social capital as general social trust, institutional trust, and the quality of various types of people's social relationships (with family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, residents of a locality, residents of a country). Data were collected in different regions of the Russian Federation for a conv

SUBMITTER: Tatarko A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9795210 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature