Document Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Social trust is an important phenomenon, but the influence of important timebased 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 copresent ‘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.
RIS ID
57690
Publication Details
Patulny, R. 2011, ''Social Trust, Social Partner Time and Television Time'', Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 289-293.