Tillit, förtroende och misstro
En kritisk granskning av enkät- och frågeformulär som använts inom statsvetetskaplig forskning
In this paper I have conducted an analysis to critically examine survey questionnaire forms used in political research to measure trust and distrust. During the first step of the analysis I aimed to identify how the concepts where used in the forms. The second step involved examining if it was possible to relate the questions and items to five theoretical assumptions based on theories of trust (and distrust). The third step was to examine the quality of the forms, in relation to survey and questionnaire designs.The results of the analysis showed that the institutes that conduct the studies tended to use similar questions to measure trust. Some of the forms that where analyzed had very many questions, which could lead to exhaustion for those participating in studies. Some of the questions and the related response alternatives tended to be remarkably vague. For future research, I suggest that researchers reflects on the amount of questions that the forms contain, which response alternatives that are suitable to use and that researcher begin to develop new questionnaires with better questions.