Psychological Mechanism Of People’s Trust In Government Under The Condition Of Insufficient Information

"Trust" has a particularly important role in maintaining the orderly functioning of society as a whole,and "government trust"(public trust in the government)is particularly important in a variety of “trust” relationships.“The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up ”,Ancients with “The relationship between water and boat ”vividly described the importance of a trusted relationship between the officials and the people.“government trust” is a dynamic relationship between the people and the government in a changing environment.People’s trust in the government will be affected by the social background,the specific situation and the interaction with the government.In the modern information age,the diversification of information dissemination and access channels has broken up the time and space constraints of the public and the government to accept information,but because of the subjective and objective reasons,the people and the government are still in the environment of sufficient information.Individuals in the torrent are still getting only a small amount of information,but the interaction between the government and the people is faced with a more complex situation.In recent years,China’s government trust has a downward trend.Therefore,it is of great practical significance to study the psychological mechanism of the government under the condition of insufficient information aiming at providing the government with the inspiration to improve the government’s trust.This study selected the hot topic of the safety of genetically modified foods as the starting point of the study and carried out the following research:Research one,through the questionnaire survey,the self-proclaimed and projected government trust scale was constructed with good reliability and validity.Research two,through the questionnaire survey,four government policy dimensions(restriction policy,promotion policy,foreign restriction policy and foreign promotion policy)are constructed.The internal homogeneity of each dimension is high and the dimension is high.Research three,through the single-factor,randomized experiment,the responses of different risk perception(technical risk,inter-group threat risk and risk-free)to the safety of genetically modified food in cognition,emotion and behavior were discussed,and how the government policy expectations(policy expectations).Research four,through the 3(Risk perception)× 4(Policy perception)two factors were completely randomized,after the initiation of the risk perception and policy perception of the subjects,the degree of trust of the subjects was measured,and the influence of risk information and policy information on the trusted government was discussed.The results of this study are as follows:1.Different risk types of perceived individual differences in government policy are different: Compared to risk-free situation,risk-aware context,the subjects expect the government to adopt a restrictive policy on genetically modified foods.2.Policy trust and policy perception(individual is more likely to limit,perceive the government to implement the policy of restrictions)in the case of individual trust in the government than the policy expectations and policy perception inconsistencies in the individual under the trust of the government higher.3.In the risk-free situation,the level of government trust is influenced by policy information,and the level of government trust is influenced by policy information and the level of trust fluctuates slightly.Under the situation of group threat,the level of government trust Under the influence of policy information,the level of trust fluctuates greatly.The above results show that the trust of the government under the condition of insufficient information is affected by many factors,including the consistency of risk perception,policy expectation and policy perception,and whether there are group information in government policy information.On this basis,the study also put forward the diversification of information dissemination and access to the modern information society to improve the communication between the public and the government effect,aiming at enhancing the management of government trust recommendations.