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Facial-recognition cameras are becoming increasingly important for governments around the world to help maintain public security and improve public services. Despite these benefits, previous studies have shown that facial-recognition cameras may also cause risks such as privacy violations. This study explores how citizens respond to government-sponsored facial-recognition cameras in terms of privacy concerns in China, which is a country with a well-established digital system. By using a national survey combined with facial-recognition camera data, this study reveals that the presence of government-sponsored facial-recognition cameras does not lead to increased information privacy concerns among Chinese citizens. Instead, citizens in China are generally very willing to accept facial-recognition cameras built by governments, and this acceptance increases when citizens' trust in companies and government institutions is greater. Our study suggests that the application of facial-recognition cameras has probably been normalised because people are more likely to consider the social and economic advantages of such application over the downside, specifically that related to privacy intrusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the long‐term impact of China's Great Leap Forward (GLF) on current differences in cooperative behaviour across Chinese regions and the underlying trust channel of causality. Combining the current firm‐level survey with grain yield over‐reporting during the GLF era, we find that past government dishonesty regarding over‐reporting in the GLF period has long‐term negative consequences on people's behaviours. The firms in the prefecture with a higher degree of yield over‐reporting are less likely to engage in R&D collaborations today. Further tests reveal the possible trust channel through which past government dishonesty impedes current cooperative behaviour. We extend the analyses to social norms of trust and show that GLF over‐reporting has shifted an individual's internal norms towards a present‐day mistrust culture, which contributes to explain the negative effect of GLF over‐reporting on cooperative behaviour. Our findings suggest that dishonest behaviours by local governments in the past can lead to lasting adverse effects on an individual's behaviour in the form of mistrust and subsequent lower frequencies of cooperative behaviour, providing new insights on the origins of cultural differences and human behaviours by investigating the role of governments in shaping social and economic interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered prejudices, systemic inequities and critical feelings about governmental institutions around the globe. Since the start of the pandemic, the 12 nations that make up South America have had more than 67 million cases and 1.3 million fatalities. Public trust in and willingness to speak out about government responses to COVID-19 in each nation have differed vastly. Using spiral of silence, this study (n = 1248) explored support for governmental COVID-19 response and willingness to speak out about that response in four South American nations: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. Results revealed Chileans are more likely to speak out on government response to COVID-19 than other South American participants. In addition, climate of opinion and support for government response positively predict willingness to speak. These results further our international and cross-cultural understanding of spiral of silence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent research on trust in the Chinese government has increasingly focused on whether it can be seen as the civic foundation of political stability. Differing from previous studies discussing the authenticity of the high mean level of trust in China, this paper responds to this discussion by examining how trust in the government varies across different social classes. By analyzing data from the Chinese Social Survey, our research revealed a gradient in trust towards both central and local governments across social classes, with notably lower trust observed in the lower classes. The social gradient was more pronounced in trust towards local governments compared to the central government. Furthermore, we found that the implementation of equity-oriented policies was effective in bridging the gap in trust between classes. These findings not only indicate that highly stratified trust may lead to potential risk to political stability, but also provide valuable insights into government behavior and its consequences, which are essential for guiding the transformation of governmental functions in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governmental natural resource entities often use surveys to gather information from the public about wildlife management and conservation policies. Response rate is a metric for understanding how many individuals participate in a survey. Higher response rates can reduce costs and sampling effort and improve the reliability and generalizability of survey findings. However, response rates may be negatively influenced by a distrust in government. Our study evaluated if response rates would differ based on the survey sponsor. We sent a survey to hunters in Georgia, USA that contained either university or governmental agency branding. Response rates did not differ among the two surveys and sentiment analysis of open-ended responses revealed that sentiments of respondents were similar between groups. Although these results suggest branding might not have major impacts on responses, further investigation is needed to determine the effect of sponsorship and other influential factors that both enhance and diminish response rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary NIMBY conflict governance has always been a hot topic in academic circles. The occurrence of NIMBY conflicts not only comes from the harm of the risk source itself, but also the failure of trust in the local government due to the difficulty of satisfying the demands of the public. The situation of public distrust of the government in the NIMBY problem is in sharp contrast to the generally good environment of government trust in China. Reshaping government trust has become a key issue in the governance of NIMBY conflict. Existing studies on NIMBY have found the relationship between trust and conflict. However, few studies deconstruct the failure of government trust in NIMBY conflicts from the level of public psychology, and lack of discussion on the internal mechanism of trust failure in the interaction between the government and the people. Based on the theory of behavioral public management, this study constructs a framework for analyzing public perception and expectation. The trigger factors (including short-term public perception, long-term public perception and public expectation) of government trust failure in NIMBY conflict are analyzed. Further, this study emphasizes the matching between public perception and expectation to explore the transmission logic of government trust failure from the perspective of dynamic analysis. Finally, this study proposes countermeasures and suggestions for the regeneration of government trust in NIMBY conflicts. The results show that government trust failure in NIMBY conflict is not only due to the mismatch between public short-term perception and expectation, but also subject to the influence of the mismatch between long-term perception (such as bounded rationality skepticism and post materialistic values) and expectation caused by repeated stimulus of short-term mismatch. Thus government trust falls into a vicious circle of "cognitive solidification of dishonesty cross regional diffusion spillover", and shows a spiral strengthening trend under the impact of new media communication. Accordingly, this study puts forward suggestions to promote the regeneration of government trust including unblocking channels for public communication and participation creating a trust environment for value co-creation, and giving play to the advantages of fusion media as an intermediary. This study contributes to the existing studies on NIMBY in the following two aspects: first, based on the behavioral public management theory, this study considers the public cognition and emotion in the process of the interaction between the government and the people in the NIMBY conflict. This study explores the establishment of a "perception-expectation" framework to explain the failure of government trust in NIMBY conflicts. Moreover, this study analyzes the trigger factors of government trust failure, including short-term public perception such as government decision-making, officials' character and media communication, and long-term public perception such as bounded rationality, skepticism and post materialistic values, and the two levels of public expectations. Secondly. this study examines the conduction logic of government trust failure in NIMBY conflicts from the perspective of dynamic analysis. This study summarizes dynamic interactions among the controlling thinking of NIMBY management, the cognitive solidification of dishonesty the cross regional diffusion spillover and the new media communication. Thus, this study reveals the cyclical reasons for the downward spiral of government trust and make up for the lack of previous studies on the single process of NIMBY conflict. And the aim is to provide theoretical basis for solving the dilemma of NIMBY facility construction in China. The findings of this study have an enlightening effect on resolving the trust crisis of avoidance conflict at the present stage, and provide a warning for avoiding the government trust falling into the "Tacitus trap". The suggestions for the governance of NIMBY conflict are helpful to the transformation of the relationship between the public and the government to "benign interaction". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Existing research has extensively explored the relationship between government trust and compliance behaviour, but significant controversies exist. Some studies suggest a strong positive correlation between the two. Other studies have found that government trust hinders compliance behaviour. However, during the pandemic, the effectiveness of public health policies largely depends on the public’s compliance with these policies. To examine the aforementioned controversies, this study utilizes survey data on the Chinese population during the COVID-19 period to explore the relationship between compliance with public health policies and government trust. Methods The study conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,395 individuals from 25 provinces in China from mid-November to mid-December 2022. Firstly, we categorized the public’s compliance behaviour with public health policies based on the results of factor analysis. Subsequently, we examined the impact of government trust and professional trust on compliance behaviour with public health policies by constructing a structural equation model. Results Based on the results of factor analysis, we classified public adherence to public health policies into protective compliance and restrictive compliance. Results from the structural equation model show a positive correlation between the public’s trust in the government and both protective and restrictive compliance, with a stronger influence on protective compliance. Government trust also exerts a positive impact on restrictive compliance behaviour through professional trust. Additionally, the study indicates a significant positive correlation between the public’s professional trust and restrictive compliance, while it does not significantly affect protective compliance. Moreover, the public from rural areas demonstrates a greater willingness to adhere to both types of public health policies. Married individuals exhibit a stronger inclination toward protective compliance, while females show a stronger tendency toward restrictive compliance. Conclusion The study revealed a significant positive impact of government trust and professional trust on compliance behaviour with public health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, refuting any negative correlation between government trust and compliance behaviour. Normative motivations for compliance behaviour had a substantial impact on adherence. These findings offer valuable insights for future public health crisis management and public policy formulation.

Background: Existing research has extensively explored the relationship between government trust and compliance behaviour, but significant controversies exist. Some studies suggest a strong positive correlation between the two. Other studies have found that government trust hinders compliance behaviour. However, during the pandemic, the effectiveness of public health policies largely depends on the public's compliance with these policies. To examine the aforementioned controversies, this study utilizes survey data on the Chinese population during the COVID-19 period to explore the relationship between compliance with public health policies and government trust. Methods: The study conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,395 individuals from 25 provinces in China from mid-November to mid-December 2022. Firstly, we categorized the public's compliance behaviour with public health policies based on the results of factor analysis. Subsequently, we examined the impact of government trust and professional trust on compliance behaviour with public health policies by constructing a structural equation model. Results: Based on the results of factor analysis, we classified public adherence to public health policies into protective compliance and restrictive compliance. Results from the structural equation model show a positive correlation between the public's trust in the government and both protective and restrictive compliance, with a stronger influence on protective compliance. Government trust also exerts a positive impact on restrictive compliance behaviour through professional trust. Additionally, the study indicates a significant positive correlation between the public's professional trust and restrictive compliance, while it does not significantly affect protective compliance. Moreover, the public from rural areas demonstrates a greater willingness to adhere to both types of public health policies. Married individuals exhibit a stronger inclination toward protective compliance, while females show a stronger tendency toward restrictive compliance. Conclusion: The study revealed a significant positive impact of government trust and professional trust on compliance behaviour with public health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, refuting any negative correlation between government trust and compliance behaviour. Normative motivations for compliance behaviour had a substantial impact on adherence. These findings offer valuable insights for future public health crisis management and public policy formulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incorporating more informal workers into the employee public pension scheme (EPPS) is a crucial component of building a high-quality employment security system in China. This study, based on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) for the years 2014, 2016, and 2018, empirically analyzes the impact of Internet usage on the participation of informal workers in the EPPS. The research finds that informal workers significantly increase the possibility of participation in the EPPS through the Internet usage. This positive effect remains significant even after a series of robustness tests. Heterogeneity analyses argue that informal workers with higher educational level are more likely to participate in employee public pension scheme through the Internet Usage than informal workers with lower educational level. Mechanism analysis suggests that informal workers significantly raise their government trust through the Internet usage, thereby promoting their participation in the EPPS. Based on the empirical results, the following policy recommendations are proposed: government should further utilize the Internet to streamline online enrollment procedures, reducing the time costs for informal workers to participate in the EPPS. Additionally, the government should actively engage with the public through the Internet to enhance its image and deepen the level of government trust of informal workers, thereby increasing their motivation to participate in the EPPS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents new arguments on the role of trust in the government and nationalist sentiments in fostering policy-compliant behaviors. In July and September 2020, we launched two waves of a COVID-related survey in China with stratified quota sampling, and formed a longitudinal panel dataset of 822 responses. Based on the data, we examined how risk perceptions and nationalist sentiments jointly elicited trust in government agencies and, consequently, support for the state-sponsored immunization program. We argue that increasing concern about the risk to the state posed by the pandemic motivated Chinese citizens to rally around the government and comply with its vaccination drives. Nationalist sentiments simultaneously elevated risk perceptions, reinforcing their impact on trust in the government. Our findings contribute to the literature on crisis governance, offering new evidence on how trust in the government and nationalist sentiment may influence the dynamic interplay between risk perceptions and policy compliance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACTGM crops, as a widely researched and applied biotechnology, hold significant strategic and practical implications for promoting the commercialization of GM crops in China, driving agricultural industry upgrading, and fostering economic and social development. However, despite their potential benefits, the commercialization of GM crops in China has been consistently delayed. Therefore, this study aims to explore the trust relationship between the government and the public in the field of genetically modified organisms and the heterogeneous impacts generated at the production and consumption ends. We primarily focus on insect-resistant cotton and genetically modified papaya as representatives and base our research on survey data from Xinjiang and Guangdong. By employing factor analysis and establishing multiple Probit models with government trust, crop purposes, and farmer expectations as independent variables, and the commercialization of GM crops as the dependent variable, we conduct two sets of empirical analyses. The study finds that government trust has a more significant impact on consumer concerns about whether to consume GM products than on producers, who prioritize farmers’ desire for agricultural product profitability. Age and education levels also influence the public’s acceptance of planting GM crops, but the effects are not as significant as the core variables mentioned earlier. Based on this, we conclude that consumers and farmers have different positions and contradictions in the specific scenario of delayed GM commercialization in China. In this context, this paper argues that diversified strategies should be adopted to address the issue of commercialization of GM crops in China.

In order to better understand of travelers' risk perception and travel decision in pandemic, this study examines the role of media information and the effect of trust in the government on travel decision making based on the social amplification of risk framework. We perform a structural equation model using 1,156 samples collected through an online survey. The most notable findings are that the exaggeration and volume of media information play significant roles as moderators in the relationship between risk characteristics and perceived risk. In addition, the results reveal that trust in the government completely mediates the relationship between perceived societal risk and travel intention. Based on the findings, this study provides implications for the risk management and travel decision-making process during pandemic crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prior research highlights broad democratic benefits of sustained public trust in the government, and the confidence that the government performs responsively addressing citizens' problems (i.e., unemployment, cost of living). As social media enhances citizens' opportunities to interact with journalists and elected officials, little is known about these communication effects on people's government trust, and citizens' evaluations about how well the government is addressing important society problems. Relying on a two-wave US representative panel survey data, this study builds on prior literature to introduce Twitter Communication with Democracy Actors : journalists and politicians, as a single, yet two-dimensional construct. Then, advancing different ordinary least squares (OLS) predictive panel models, results indicate that people who interact with democratic actors on Twitter trust the government and assess its overall functioning more positively. Additional moderating tests indicate social media interactions with democracy actors help citizens who might need it the most, specifically those who have lower levels of external political efficacy. The study provides theoretical implications of findings and suggestions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To identify the mechanisms by which perceived scarcity affects consumers' panic-buying behaviours and to explore the underlying reasons for panic-buying. Building on signalling theory and scarcity theory, we constructed a model of panic-buying behaviour. In total, 361 sources of valid data were collected via online questionnaires, and partial least squares structural equation modelling was employed for the empirical analysis. In the context of COVID-19, perceived scarcity significantly and positively influenced the macro signals, for example, by impacting perceived value and perceived competitiveness. Furthermore, perceived scarcity significantly affected consumers' micro signals, such as their perceived anxiety and perceived uncertainty. In combination, perceived value, perceived competitiveness, perceived anxiety and perceived uncertainty significantly and positively influenced consumers' panic-buying behaviours. Trust in the government also played a significant role by regulating consumers' micro signals and macro signals. The originality of this paper lies in its in-depth exploration of the multiple impacts of scarcity on consumer perceptions and it reveals the reasons for panic-buying behaviours. In doing so, it provides practical guidelines and understanding for consumers, businesses and the government.

Background: COVID-19 was declared a community health emergency, prompting the Indonesian government to implement a large-scale social restriction policy on March 2022. As a result, the number of patient visits to the Public Health Center (PHC) decreased. Aims: This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting the revisit intention of patients at PHC during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This observational study was conducted at PHC XYZ in West Jakarta in September and October 2022 using a cross-sectional approach. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were employed to select 244 samples. The data collected through a questionnaire with 37 questions were analyzed using PLS-SEM. Results: Government trust and trust in healthcare facilities positively affect revisit intention, with t-statistics of 4.816 and 0.003 as well as a p-value of 0.000. Meanwhile, perceived crowding and health risk, reputation, self-confidence, familiarity, and brand image did not significantly influence revisit intention at the PHC during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: This study showed that trust in government and healthcare facilities affects the revisit intention of patients. Patients trust that the Government can overcome COVID-19 and that PHC can be trusted during COVID-19 has a positive influence on patients' intention to revisit. It is important to identify the factors influencing revisit intention at PHC during the pandemic because PHC has a role as a primary healthcare service. Keywords: COVID-19, government trust, Public Health Center, revisit Intention, trust

Emergent research identifies cultural tightness‐looseness as an important factor for understanding cross‐national outcome differences during the coronavirus pandemic. Because perceived tightness‐looseness can be measured as an individual‐level difference rather than a nation‐level difference, and because tightness‐looseness may shift during large‐scale crises, we investigated whether such shifts occurred early in the coronavirus pandemic in both China (a relatively tight nation, n = 3642) and the U.S. (a relatively loose nation, n = 3583) across three cohorts. Tightness increased across cohorts in China and reduced across cohorts in the U.S. These changes transmitted corresponding indirect effects whereby compliance and institutional trust (scientific and government) about the pandemic were increased in China across cohorts, but decreased in the U.S. across cohorts. These patterns extend advice that national governments can increase compliance and trust via "tightening" by cautioning against norm‐setters signaling the reverse (that norms about compliance are loose) given the outcomes observed in the U.S. samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Declining levels of trust in the media in Western democracies have drawn the attention of political scientists, but much less attention has been paid to East Asia. This paper sets out to examine the logic behind media trust in three different types of regimes in East and Southeast Asia: countries with, partial, and no press freedom, respectively. Our findings show that while respondents' trust in government and support for socioideological control of the government have consistent and significant associations with their media trust across all 12 countries, Internet usage, online political participation, support for media censorship, and patriotic belief have different associations with the variable being studied as the degree of press freedom varies. The findings indicate that citizens are well aware of the role mass media plays in the political system and thus their trust in the media reflects the expectation‐perception gap of the government‐media relationship accordingly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To identify the mechanisms by which perceived scarcity affects consumers' panic-buying behaviours and to explore the underlying reasons for panic-buying. Building on signalling theory and scarcity theory, we constructed a model of panic-buying behaviour. In total, 361 sources of valid data were collected via online questionnaires, and partial least squares structural equation modelling was employed for the empirical analysis. In the context of COVID-19, perceived scarcity significantly and positively influenced the macro signals, for example, by impacting perceived value and perceived competitiveness. Furthermore, perceived scarcity significantly affected consumers' micro signals, such as their perceived anxiety and perceived uncertainty. In combination, perceived value, perceived competitiveness, perceived anxiety and perceived uncertainty significantly and positively influenced consumers' panic-buying behaviours. Trust in the government also played a significant role by regulating consumers' micro signals and macro signals. The originality of this paper lies in its in-depth exploration of the multiple impacts of scarcity on consumer perceptions and it reveals the reasons for panic-buying behaviours. In doing so, it provides practical guidelines and understanding for consumers, businesses and the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Government pandemic provisions occurred alongside a safety net that excludes or dissuades Latina mothers from participation. These families are also disproportionately exposed to punitive immigration policies and rhetoric that may shape their views on such provisions and, in turn, influence their post-pandemic well-being. To understand these complexities, we draw on interviews before and after COVID-19 with thirty-eight Latina immigrant and citizen mothers, most of whom are undocumented (N = 29). We find that pre-pandemic distrust of public institutions and the safety net was common, increased after COVID-19, and negatively affected undocumented respondents’ post-pandemic circumstances relative to that of citizen mothers. Findings suggest that safety net expansion on its own will not offset pandemic effects for these families without addressing exclusion from public benefits and alienation from and distrust of government.

BackgroundCOVID-19 has the potential to greatly impact an individual mental well-being. However, an individual’s psychological resilience, combined with support from their community and government disaster relief efforts can aid individuals in confronting crises with a positive mindset. The purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals, across three dimensions of individual resilience perception, community resilience perception, and government trust perception, mitigate individual anxiety during COVID-19.MethodsThis study employed an online survey method that was not restricted by geographical location. Data collection took place from January 2022 to June 2022, and the valid questionnaires covered all 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China. The assessment of community resilience was conducted employing the Conjoint Community Resilience Assessment Measure-10 (CCRAM-10). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was also used to examine the relationship between community resilience, government trust, individual psychological resilience, and anxiety.ResultsThe SEM results reveal that individual psychological resilience is significantly negatively correlated with anxiety (b = −0.099, p

This paper first measures and compares the size of middle-income groups in China based on the subjective income evaluation method and the objective criteria. Second, it empirically investigates the differences in government trust of different income groups defined by the subjective evaluation method and the objective criteria. It is found that there is a significant difference between the results of the subjective evaluation of income and objective criteria. Compared with individuals in the middle-income group, individuals in the low-income group have a significantly worse overall evaluation of local government and a considerably lower trust in local government officials. On the other hand, individuals in the high-income group have a substantially better assessment of local government and a significantly higher trust in local government officials. However, the differences in trust in government across income groups defined by objective criteria are insignificant overall. In terms of policy insights, the effect of targeting low-income groups determined by subjective evaluation may be more effective in improving people’s trust in the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Government pandemic provisions occurred alongside a safety net that excludes or dissuades Latina mothers from participation. These families are also disproportionately exposed to punitive immigration policies and rhetoric that may shape their views on such provisions and, in turn, influence their post-pandemic well-being. To understand these complexities, we draw on interviews before and after COVID-19 with thirty-eight Latina immigrant and citizen mothers, most of whom are undocumented (N = 29). We find that pre-pandemic distrust of public institutions and the safety net was common, increased after COVID-19, and negatively affected undocumented respondents' post-pandemic circumstances relative to that of citizen mothers. Findings suggest that safety net expansion on its own will not offset pandemic effects for these families without addressing exclusion from public benefits and alienation from and distrust of government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: This study examined the willingness to get vaccinated and the factors influencing this attitude in extreme settings—in the Czech Republic (at the time of the survey, the third-worst affected country in the world).Methods: We used national data from the general adult Czech population (N = 1,401) and measured attitudes towards vaccination, sociodemographic characteristics, government trust, knowledge about COVID-19 vaccines, personal characteristics, depression and anxiety.Results: Respondents who were more likely to refuse the vaccine were: female, younger, living without a partner, self-employed or unemployed, living in a town, believers outside the church, and did not trust the government, obtained information about the vaccine from social media, were extroverts and depressed. Conversely, respondents who were less likely to refuse the vaccine were: pensioners, people with higher education, respondents with better real knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccines, those who obtained information about the vaccine from an expert and those who had higher scores in neuroticism.Conclusion: This study thus offers a deeper understanding of the factors that might influence vaccine intention and subsequently the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

【Objective/Meaning】This paper was to clarify the influence mechanism of rural residents ’ sense of social justice on the government trust, so as to provide empirical evidence for improving the rural residents ’ trust in the government. 【Methods/Procedures】 By using the sampling data of rural residents in the CSS2019 data, a chain mediating effect model including the political identity and the satisfaction towards governments’ work was constructed to analyze the mechanism of rural residents ’ sense of social justice affecting the government trust and the magnitude of the mediating effect of different paths was compared. 【Results/Conclusions】The sense of social justice had a significant positive impact on the rural residents’ trust in the government; The political identity and the satisfaction towards governments ’ work respectively played a mediating role, and together constituted a chained mediating effect, among which, the satisfaction towards governments ’ work had the strongest mediating effect. Therefore, it was suggested to improve the rural residents’ trust in the government in various ways by focusing on promoting the social fairness through multiple channels, supplemented by improving the public ’s satisfaction with governments ’ work and political identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community residents' support is one of the key factors affecting the development of tourist destinations. A clear understanding of influencing factors and internal transmission mechanisms in community residents' support for tourism can lend to a theoretical basis and reference for tourism management departments to formulate relevant policies. It is therefore conducive to the rapid recovery and sustainable development of tourism amidst the intermittent outbreaks of COVID-19 pandemic. Taking Guilin as the site for a case study, this study examined the effect of local residents' perceptions of risks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, benefits of tourism and residents' participation in it, government trust, and support for tourism. In particular, the intermediary role of residents' tourism participation and the moderating role of government trust has been explored. A total of 383 residents in Guilin City were selected as the sample for hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed that perceived risks had a significant negative impact on support for tourism, but no significant impact on resident participation. Tourism's perceived benefits had a significant positive impact on both support for and participation in tourism, and residents' participation played a partial mediating role in the relationship between perceived benefits of and support for tourism. Government trust played a significant moderating role in the relationship between tourism's perceived benefits and residents' participation, between perceived benefits and support for tourism, and between residents' participation in and support for tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GM crops, as a widely researched and applied biotechnology, hold significant strategic and practical implications for promoting the commercialization of GM crops in China, driving agricultural industry upgrading, and fostering economic and social development. However, despite their potential benefits, the commercialization of GM crops in China has been consistently delayed. Therefore, this study aims to explore the trust relationship between the government and the public in the field of genetically modified organisms and the heterogeneous impacts generated at the production and consumption ends. We primarily focus on insect-resistant cotton and genetically modified papaya as representatives and base our research on survey data from Xinjiang and Guangdong. By employing factor analysis and establishing multiple Probit models with government trust, crop purposes, and farmer expectations as independent variables, and the commercialization of GM crops as the dependent variable, we conduct two sets of empirical analyses. The study finds that government trust has a more significant impact on consumer concerns about whether to consume GM products than on producers, who prioritize farmers' desire for agricultural product profitability. Age and education levels also influence the public's acceptance of planting GM crops, but the effects are not as significant as the core variables mentioned earlier. Based on this, we conclude that consumers and farmers have different positions and contradictions in the specific scenario of delayed GM commercialization in China. In this context, this paper argues that diversified strategies should be adopted to address the issue of commercialization of GM crops in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the mediating role of prior exposure to a rumor in the relationship between anxiety and rumor believability, and the moderated mediation thereof by government trust and health literacy. A total of 534 participants aged 19–59 were recruited from a research survey panel in an early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea. Using two negative COVID-19 rumors, prior exposure to a rumor and rumor believability were measured for each rumor. The results showed that anxiety about COVID-19 led to rumor believability, mediated by prior exposure to a rumor. Government trust moderated the relationship between anxiety and rumor exposure in both rumor cases. Health literacy moderated the relationship between anxiety and rumor believability only in the rumor about lung damage caused by COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, there are almost 700 million rural population in China, and the farm and farmers in China are highly associated with the steadiness and development of the country and even the world. Farmers are the main subjects in rural development and play a vital role in the reception, management, and benefit distribution in rural tourism activities during the development of rural tourism. Farmers' perception and participation intention in rural tourism development are directly related to the sustainable development of rural tourism and the realization of rural revitalization goals. The decision-making process of participation in the rural tourism development fits the application conditions of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Therefore, in order to explore the influencing factors of farmers' decision-making process in participating in the rural tourism, this study employs the technology acceptance model to predict and judge individual farmers' willingness and behavior to participate in the rural tourism. The government trust and perceived risk in the real problem of low participation of farmers in the rural tourism development are considered. Then, an extended technology acceptance model was established by taking 409 farm households as research samples. The influence of government trust on farmers' participation intention in the rural tourism was empirically analyzed based on the PLS-SEM model. The results show that farmers' perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use in rural tourism affect their participation intention. Farmers' judgments on whether governments can assume public responsibilities and achieve public interests through rural tourism development affects their trust in government, while the government trust can positively affect farmers' participation intention via perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. This indicates that government trust is an important antecedent variable influencing farmers' participation in the rural tourism. The perceived risk affects farmers' perceived usefulness and participation intention in the rural tourism, and plays a moderating role in the relationship between government trust and perceived usefulness. Finally, this study recommends to highlight the utility and convenience of rural tourism participation during the promotion of farmers' participation in rural tourism development, enhance the ability of farmers to participate in rural tourism development, and choose multiple channels to increase government trust to reduce farmers' risk concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, Korea and Japan are in conflict arising from export restrictions launched by Japan on Korea, which have provoked a boycott of Japanese products in Korea, and even tourism to Japan. Animosity performs a momentous role in the context of crisis management communication. Hence, this article aims to investigate factors impacting boycott intention to visit Japan, with economic animosity being a principal mediating variable, whose antecedents and consequences have been probed into. A total of 333 respondents' survey data were collected and analyzed via SEM for the verification of research hypotheses. The findings manifest that ethnic identity engenders significant direct positive bearings upon economic animosity and boycott news, and boycott news significantly positively affects economic animosity; boycott news serves as the mediating role between ethnic identity and economic animosity. Additionally, the outcomes denote that economic animosity exerts a significant positive impact on boycott visit intention, economic animosity negatively affects Japanese government trust, and Japanese government trust negatively bears upon boycott visit intention; Japanese government trust mediates between economic animosity and boycott intention to visit Japan. Consequently, the research makes contributions to furnishing empirical evidence for influencing factors of boycott visit intention and enriching the literature on the antecedents and consequences of animosity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China requires residents to provide real names and identification for participation in environmental impact assessments (EIAs). This study examines residents' willingness to participate in EIAs based on the real-name system. The results of a questionnaire survey in Southwest China showed that after adopting the real-name system, the residents' willingness to participate in EIAs was reduced. When there was no real-name system, 78.97% of the residents were willing or very willing to participate in EIAs. However, after the implementation of the real-name system, only 40.85% of the residents were willing or very willing to participate in EIAs. The results also indicated that after implementation of the real-name system, the residents' willingness to participate in EIAs was positively correlated with privacy protection and government trust factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the global tourism industry. This study explores why some Chinese residents travel during the pandemic. A mixed-methods research design was adopted, guided by the health belief model and relevant literature. Through 21 interviews with Chinese tourists who took an overnight leisure trip in May 2020, and a national survey among Chinese residents, this study explored factors influencing Chinese residents’ travel-related decisions and behaviors during the pandemic. Results outline the influences of health beliefs, government trust, past travel experience, and psychological capital on tourists’ risk-reduction behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications are provided regarding tourism recovery during pandemics.

Tax compliance behavior of individuals is ascertained in this research. Among the variables which affect the tax compliance behavior, government trust and tax justice perception are studied. 300 individuals were taken as sample from Pakistan to study the relationship between variables of government trust, tax compliance and tax justice perception. Data is obtained through questionnaire and analyzed using reliability test, correlation and regression analysis. The results of the study showed that tax justice perception and government trust are the major determinants of tax compliance behavior in Pakistan. Tax justice perception plays the role of mediator through government trust to enhance tax compliance. Study implicates some useful suggestion that government should always put efforts in gaining public trust by increasing public services, making tax system understandable for everyone by making documentation easier so that more and more people can obey the rules which can increase compliance level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing applications have been proposed to limit positive cases and reinforce other measures, especially before the appearance of vaccines. A high rate of adoption by citizens is required. This study investigates the impact of trust on the adoption of tracking applications. A survey was administered in Morocco, where the authorities proposed the «Wiqaytna» application. Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the hypotheses of the proposed model. The model explains 53% of the variance of the "intention to use" and 40.8% of the "actual use" of the application. The model was based on the UTAUT technology acceptance model and the GAM model of e-gov service acceptance. Our main objective was to study the impact of trust in the decision of Moroccans to use this type of application. Technology trust, government trust and social influence were important determinants of intention to use. The proposed model also shows that perceived awareness is an important antecedent of trust constructs. The impact of «perceived awareness» on the trust constructs (technology and government) is stronger than the social influence on the latter. Moreover, our model shows that «Perceived Awareness» has a more significant impact on «technology trust» than on «government trust». Due to their lack of interest (in seeking information) and attention (communications on the application), citizens lack information about the application's usefulness and the security of users' data. Even those who have had contact with the information they are looking for cannot often verify its credibility (e.g. the source code of the «Wiqaytna» application was available on Github). Therefore, cognitive and individual factors give way to social influence, and the intention to use becomes dependent on the norms and suggestions of influential people in the individual's environment. The latter construct is complex and has multiple determinants. Several factors act on the construction of trust in the authorities' quality of public services. Finally, the strongest relationship in the model is the effect of intention to use on using the Wiqaytna application. Based on these findings, suggestions are made for policymakers. First, a significant effort must be made to improve citizens' awareness of the importance of such an application for the control of the pandemic, even after the launch of the vaccination campaign and the application of social distancing measures. Indeed, a few posters here and there and a few commercials are not enough. An effective communication strategy must be built to explain to citizens the critical role these applications can play and reduce fears about citizens' privacy to increase the adoption rate of these applications. Secondly, the role of social influence is critical in adopting applications. This must be considered in communication campaigns and the involvement of opinion leaders and influencers to be more effective and increase the intention to use them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on 694 farmer survey data in Jiangsu Province and Hubei Province, this paper uses hierarchical regression and Bootstrap method to empirically analyze the influence path of farmer s participation on ecological policy gains and social policy gains. The results show that: * The participation of farmers has significantly improved the sense of ecological and social gains, and part of the mediating effect on ecological gains and social gains through government trust, accounting for 29.89% and 18.97% of the total utility, respectively. * Formal systems play a positive role in regulating the influence of government trust on social gains, and informal systems have a positive regulating role in the influence of government trust on ecological and social gains. Therefore, this study proposes that rural environmental governance should strengthen the trust of farmers in the government, require institutions to empower farmers to participate in and empower farmers, to activate the endogenous motivation of farmers to participate, and moreover, it is necessary to use informal systems to reach a consensus on collective governance in the village, strengthen the network of farmers and the government, and enhance farmers sense of policy gains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has imposed enormous adversity worldwide. Public health guidelines have been a first line of defense but rely on compliance with evolving recommendations and restrictions. This study sought to characterize adherence to and perceptions of public health guidelines over a one-year timeframe during the pandemic. Methods: Participants were 1435 community adults in Ontario who completed assessments at five time points (April 2020, July 2020, October 2020, January 2021, and April 2021; 92% retention). Participants were assessed for self-reported adherence to government protocols and perceptions of government response (importance, compliance, and effectiveness). Analyses used general linear mixed-effects modelling of overall changes by time and examined differences based on age and sex. Findings: Over time, participants reported high or increasing behavioural engagement in public health guidelines, including physical distancing, restricting activity, and masking. In contrast, participants exhibited significant reductions in perceived importance and compliance, with evidence of more negative changes in younger participants. The largest changes were a substantial reduction in perceived government effectiveness, from predominantly positive perceptions to predominantly negative perceptions. Interpretation: These results illuminate evolving trends in public health compliance and perceptions over the course of the pandemic in Canada, revealing the malleability of public perceptions of public health recommendations and government effectiveness. Funding: This research was funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). CIHR had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, or writing of the report.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of government trust on young adults’ adoption of health behaviors to prevent infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.Method: We tested the hypothesis that government trust would directly and indirectly (through worry/fear and subjective norms) influence the adoption of health-protective behaviors. A sample of 1,136 university students completed a web survey after Chile’s first wave of infections.Results: The results indicate that low government trust only indirectly (through subjective norms) influenced health-protective behaviors. Conversely, worry/fear was the primary motivating factor for adopting health-protective behaviors in young adults, followed by subjective norms.Conclusion: In scenarios where people perceive low government trust, emotions and social norms are the motivational factors with the most significant predictive power on the adoption of health-protective behaviors.

Governments’ impression management behaviors are becoming increasingly common. Under this context, this study empirically analyzes the relationship between governments’ impression management behavior, citizens’ government trust and social cohesion by using questionnaire data based on social psychology theories. The conclusion shows that governments’ impression management behaviors positively affect citizens’ government trust and social cohesion. Government trust plays a mediating role between impression management behaviors and social cohesion, and citizens’ education levels positively moderate the relationship between governments’ impression management and citizens’ government trust, i.e., the higher the education level, the stronger the positive effect of governments’ impression management on citizens’ government trust. The findings of the study will provide significant references for the self-presentation of government information, citizens’ government trust and the improvement of social cohesion.

Mass media has a significant impact on public support for the government. This manuscript constructs a mixed model with official media use as the moderating variable and government trust as the intermediary variable to explore the mechanism of how unofficial media use affects system confidence, using data from a survey of the political and social attitudes of netizens (2015). The study finds that official media use weakens the negative role of unofficial media use in building system confidence, with the intermediary variable of government trust creating the necessary conditions for weakening the effect of unofficial media use. Moreover, the effect of unofficial media use on system confidence is heterogeneous. These findings remind us that it is necessary to deepen research into the micromechanisms that explain how unofficial media use reduces system confidence, a task for which cognitive theory is well suited.

Governments' impression management behaviors are becoming increasingly common. Under this context, this study empirically analyzes the relationship between governments' impression management behavior, citizens' government trust and social cohesion by using questionnaire data based on social psychology theories. The conclusion shows that governments' impression management behaviors positively affect citizens' government trust and social cohesion. Government trust plays a mediating role between impression management behaviors and social cohesion, and citizens' education levels positively moderate the relationship between governments' impression management and citizens' government trust, i.e., the higher the education level, the stronger the positive effect of governments' impression management on citizens' government trust. The findings of the study will provide significant references for the self-presentation of government information, citizens' government trust and the improvement of social cohesion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic puts countries and their governments in an unprecedented situation. Strong countermeasures have been implemented in most places, but how much do people trust their governments in handling this crisis? Using data from a worldwide survey, conducted between March 20th and April 22nd, 2020, with more than 100,000 participants, we study people's perceptions of government reactions in 57 countries. We find that media freedom reduces government trust directly as well as indirectly via a more negative assessment of government reactions as either insufficient or too strict. Higher level of education is associated with higher government trust and lower tendency to judge government reactions as too extreme. We also find different predictors of perceived insufficient reactions vs. too-extreme reactions. In particular, number of COVID-19 deaths significantly predicts perceived insufficient reactions but is not related to perceived too-extreme reactions. Further survey evidence suggests that conspiracy theory believers tend to perceive government countermeasures as too strict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conspiracy beliefs are ubiquitous in the current COVID‐19 pandemic. This may be because they directly affect own and others' health and economic outcomes due to detrimental effects on preventive behaviour. We aimed to (a) test key hypotheses on the correlates of generic beliefs in conspiracy theories in this high‐threat real‐life setting, (b) examine the role of trust in mediating effects of conspiracy beliefs on preventive behaviour, and (c) thereby inform the public health response. Using cross‐sectional data (N = 1013) from the German COVID‐19 monitoring we tested the relationships between conspiracy beliefs and (a) social and economic worries, (b) trust in media, the government, public health institutions, and science, and (c) hygiene‐related and contact‐related preventive behaviour. Results were in line with expectations apart from null findings for the relationships with social worries and hygiene‐related preventive behaviour. Trust in government mediated effects of conspiracy beliefs on contact‐related preventive behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mass media has a significant impact on public support for the government. This manuscript constructs a mixed model with official media use as the moderating variable and government trust as the intermediary variable to explore the mechanism of how unofficial media use affects system confidence, using data from a survey of the political and social attitudes of netizens (2015). The study finds that official media use weakens the negative role of unofficial media use in building system confidence, with the intermediary variable of government trust creating the necessary conditions for weakening the effect of unofficial media use. Moreover, the effect of unofficial media use on system confidence is heterogeneous. These findings remind us that it is necessary to deepen research into the micromechanisms that explain how unofficial media use reduces system confidence, a task for which cognitive theory is well suited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]