When should one (dis)trust trust measures? Response to Lindström and Sawada

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, 6303 Northwest Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1. Electronic address: richard.carpiano@ubc.ca.

Comment

Richard M Carpiano. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Sep.

. 2014 Sep:116:239-40.

doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.032. Epub 2014 Jun 25.

¹ Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, 6303 Northwest Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1. Electronic address: richard.carpiano@ubc.ca.

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Keywords: Construct validity; Measurement; Population health; Social capital; Social determinants of health; Theory; Trust.

Comment on

Questions of trust in health research on social capital: what aspects of personal network social capital do they measure?
Carpiano RM, Fitterer LM. Carpiano RM, et al. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Sep;116:225-34. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.017. Epub 2014 Mar 21. Soc Sci Med. 2014. PMID: 24721251
Does social capital include trust? Commentary on Carpiano and Fitterer (2014).
Lindström M. Lindström M. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Sep;116:235-6. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.04.028. Epub 2014 May 2. Soc Sci Med. 2014. PMID: 24820482 No abstract available.
Is trust really social capital? Commentary on Carpiano and Fitterer (2014).
Sawada Y. Sawada Y. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Sep;116:237-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.001. Epub 2014 Jun 6. Soc Sci Med. 2014. PMID: 24954519 No abstract available.