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Table 4 Factors affecting police trust: generalized ordinal logistic regression (Gologit)

From: The impact of Chinese political efficacy and political participation on their trust in the police

 

First group 1 vs 2–5

Second group 1–2 vs 3–5

Third group 1–3 vs 4–5

Fourth group 1–4 vs 5

Controlled variables

    

 Gender (male =1)

0.834

0.910

0.918

1.021

 Age

1.001

1.004

1.005

1.011

 Education

0.978

0.953

0.893

0.826

 Registered residence (village =1)

1.207

1.219

1.428

1.459

 Religious or not (religious =1)

1.611

1.079

1.252

0.911

 Han nationality or not (Han =1)

0.651

0.809

0.686

0.732

 Universal trust

1.912

1.848

1.779

1.399

 Special trust

0.993

1.120

1.269

1.525

 Class mobility

1.036

1.033

1.054

1.014

 Social justice

2.099

1.599

1.452

1.357

Predictive variables

    

 Political efficacy

    

  External efficacy

1.506

1.512

1.407

1.351

  Internal efficacy

0.764

0.853

0.873

0.828

 Political participation

    

  Rightful resistance

0.926

0.932

0.948

0.996

  Community participation

0.896

0.915

0.991

0.996

  Grassroots election participation

1.431

1.233

1.290

1.272

   Hukou × grassroots election participation

0.910

0.895

0.801

0.796

N

9985

Log-likelihood

−11,735.937

Pseudo R 2

0.1062

  1. Notes: odd ratio has been listed in the table
  2. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
  3. 1 =not trust at all
  4. 2 =somewhat not trust
  5. 3 =between not trust and trust
  6. 4 =somewhat trust
  7. 5 =completely trust