ABSTRACT
This chapter verifies the impact of social capital on generalized trust and analyzes how the three types of institutionalized structural resources (resources brought by household registration, property and workplace) adjust the relationship between them. First, it is proven that two types of social capital have significant impacts on generalized trust. According to statistical analysis, such impact is represented not as an inverted U-shape but as a logarithmic curve. In other words, as social capital grows, its utility for generalized trust grows, but at a lower rate. Second, it compares the utility of social capital in two dimensions in explaining generalized trust and on this basis analyzes the changing explanatory power of personal attribute variables. This chapter then analyzes the moderating effects of three types of institutionalized structural resources and verifies the household registration resources (including the number of household registration transfers and rural-urban transfer of key family members), property resources (including housing with or without property rights, the home price-to-income ratio) and workplace resources (including the nature of the entity where a key family member works and the administrative level of the governing body of this workplace) affect in different ways the directions and strength of the relationship between social capital in two dimensions and generalized trust.
