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Self-rating as a trusting person, from a GSS four-point item in 1998 and a five-point agree-disagree personality item in 2006, so the scales differ.
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Latest: 6% answered “Neither / in between” in GSS: Sees self as generally trusting, 2006.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Sees self as generally trusting | Sees self as generally trusting To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I see myself as someone who…
B. …is generally trusting Caveat: Agree-disagree format with neutral midpoint; personality battery item | similar | Strongly agree → Trusting; Agree → Trusting; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither / in between; Disagree → Distrusting; Strongly disagree → Distrusting |
| GSS: Whether respondent sees self as a trusting person | Whether respondent sees self as a trusting person Do you think of yourself as a trusting person? Are you... Caveat: Four-point forced choice, no midpoint; intensity collapsed | equivalent | Very trusting → Trusting; Somewht trusting → Trusting; Somwht dstrustng → Distrusting; Very distrusting → Distrusting |