An Examination of the Reliability and Validity of Political Trust

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The aim of this research is to examine the reliability and validity of political trust scale by survey experiment. This research especially focuses on the effect of not question wording but answer scale design: 3-point, 5-point or 10-point scale. The findings of this research are following three. First, the distribution of political trust is changed by scale rating. Second, the correlations between political trust and the other variables are also changed by scale rating. Third, however, the effects of scale rating depend on context surrounding respondents. In other words, this finding may imply that it is difficult to generalize the effect of answer scale design.