A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Trust and victimization: A cross-national comparison of Finland, the U.S., Germany and UK
Authors: Matti Näsi, Pekka Räsänen, Teo Keipi, Atte Oksanen
Publisher: Turun yhteiskunnallis-taloudellinen tutkimusyhdistys ry.
Publishing place: Turku
Publication year: 2017
Journal: Research On Finnish Society
Journal acronym: RFS
Article number: 1
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
First page : 119
Last page: 131
Number of pages: 13
eISSN: 1796-8739
Web address : http://www.finnresearch.fi/RFS2017_Nasi_etal.pdf
This study examines the relationship between average means of generalized trust on two groups of social
connections, namely people in general and people only met online, and respondents’ past experiences with
online and offline victimization. Our data was collected from four countries, Finland, the U.S., Germany
and UK from participants aged 15–30 years. Each country was analyzed separately using OLS regression
models. Our findings indicated that offline victimization had a negative association with perceived trust
in people in general in all four countries. Online victimization was negatively associated with trust in
people in general only in Finland and Germany. Trust towards people only met online was not as clearly
associated with online and offline victimization, but in the U.S. and UK online victims reported higher
trust. Gender, age, social activity
