Institutional Trust Scale (ESS)
7-item measure of trust in political and civic institutions, from the European Social Survey. Three subscales: Domestic Political, Order, and Supranational trust.
Purpose
Self-report research instrument, reproduced here under an open license for non-diagnostic educational, research, and self-reflection use.
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Limitations: Imported from the OpenScales open item-bank project. This specific digital implementation has not been independently clinically validated by PsiQ — scores are for self-reflection, research, and educational purposes only.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Citation: Torcal, M. (2014). The decline of political trust in Spain and Portugal. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(12), 1542–1567; European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC), ESS Round 10/11 Source Questionnaire.
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