ERIC Number: EJ916596
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Publication Date: 2011-Apr
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Social Trust, Social Partner Time and Television Time
Patulny, Roger
Social Indicators Research, v101 n2 p289-293 Apr 2011
Social trust is an important phenomenon, but the influence of important time-based measures upon trust has not been examined. Such measures include social contact and anti-social activity, such as television watching, which allows for the co-presence of other people. This paper reports on associations between trust and weighted means of co-present "social" time (defined as time spent in various "social" activities) and co-present time spent watching television, using the Australian Time Use Survey, 2006. It finds that trust is associated with social time spent in the co-presence of "strangers" predominately from outside the household, and that TV watching in the co-presence of "familiars"--friends and family--is negatively associated with trust.
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Trust (Psychology), Correlation, Foreign Countries, Antisocial Behavior, Time Management, Surveys, Social Life, Family (Sociological Unit), Friendship, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Indicators
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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