Table 1.
Response modalities associated with the first factorial dimension (VOC 1).
| ( − ) Social Trust | ||
| Item | Response Mode | V-Test |
| Government | Somewhat reliable | −9.18 |
| It is useless to bustle about, since you cannot affect what will happen | Strongly disagree | −8.92 |
| Public administration | Somewhat reliable | −7.9 |
| To a great extent, my life is controlled by accidental happenings | Strongly disagree | −7.81 |
| There’s little use in writing to public officials because often they aren’t really interested in the problems of the average man | Somewhat disagree | −7.7 |
| These days a person doesn’t really know whom he can count on | Somewhat disagree | −7.28 |
| How will you live here? | Better | −7.22 |
| People are unable to change | Strongly disagree | −7.05 |
| It is not possible at all to make any provision for the future | Somewhat disagree | −7.03 |
| Having few scruples | Not at all | −6.9 |
| (+) Social Untrust | ||
| Item | Response Mode | V-Test |
| In spite of what some people say, the lot of the average man is getting worse, not better | Strongly agree | 6.58 |
| Having few scruples | Very | 6.75 |
| There’s little use in writing to public officials because often they aren’t really interested in the problems of the average man | Strongly agree | 6.81 |
| It is not possible at all to make any provision about the future | Strongly agree | 7 |
| It is useless to bustle about, since you cannot affect what will happen | Strongly agree | 7.03 |
| It is not possible at all to make any provision for the future | Strongly agree | 7.05 |
| Health care services | Not at all reliable | 7.43 |
| These days a person doesn’t really know whom he can count on | Strongly agree | 7.49 |
| Nowadays a person has to live pretty much for today and let tomorrow take care of itself | Strongly agree | 8.52 |
| Government | Not at all reliable | 9.14 |