direct, indirect and paradoxical effects of trust on parent participation in schools

What is it about?

using democratic schools in Israel as a case study, we found that trust and social participation have complex relations. most importantly, generalized trust is only indirectly associated with parental involvement in school mediated through particularized trust, and trust may have both positive and negative effects on involvement. We suggest that building particularized trust may have negative impact on bridging and linking social capital

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Why is it important?

disputes the notion that trust always increases participation, and reveals that generalized trust has no direct kink with involvement

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