Comprehensive drug policies increase trust in local government: an analysis of authorities’ and residents’ perspectives in rural US Appalachian and Midwestern counties

Table 2 Regression results for predicting authority assessed trust (‘Authorities model’ 1 & 2) and residents reported trust (‘Residents model’ 1 & 2)

Variables	b	SE	B	t	p	Adjusted r²
Authorities model 1 (N = 111)
Intercept	2.386	.302		7.89	< .001
Perceived governmental support for comprehensive drug policy	0.335	.098	0.312	3.43	< .001
						.089
Authorities model 2 (N = 109)
Intercept	1.098	.849		1.29	.199
Perceived governmental support for comprehensive drug policy	0.366	.098	0.344	3.74	< .001
Gender^a (female)	− 0.137	.187	− 0.069	− 0.73	.466
Race/ethnicity^b(non-White)	0.173	.335	0.047	0.52	.607
Age	0.013	.007	0.168	1.82	.072
Education	0.109	.079	0.127	1.37	.174
						.127
Residents model 1 (N = 5504)
Intercept	1.647	.041		39.86	< .001
Perceived governmental support for comprehensive drug policy	0.437	.014	0.390	31.39	< .001
						.152
Residents model 2 (N = 5135)
Intercept	1.546	.092		16.76	< .001
Perceived governmental support for comprehensive drug policy	0.401	.014	0.358	27.71	< .001
Age	0.002	.001	0.026	1.90	.058
Gender^a
Female	− 0.102	.031	− 0.045	− 3.34	< .001
Other	− 0.742	.229	− 0.042	− 3.25	.001
Race/ethnicity^b
Black	0.167	.053	0.041	3.16	.002
Hispanic	0.072	.066	0.014	1.09	.277
Asian	0.399	.114	0.046	3.50	< .001
Other	− 0.094	.102	− 0.012	− 0.93	.355
Multi-race	− 0.233	.091	− 0.033	− 2.56	.011
Religion^c
Other Protestant	0.024	.045	0.008	0.53	.595
Catholic	0.124	.050	0.038	2.50	.012
Jewish	0.299	.132	0.029	2.26	.024
Muslim	0.214	.161	0.017	1.33	.184
Hindu	0.475	.284	0.022	1.67	.094
Agnostic	− 0.083	.052	− 0.026	− 1.60	.111
Other	− 0.080	.044	− 0.030	− 1.83	.067
Frequency of attendance^d	0.069	.009	0.105	7.27	< .001
Education^e	− 0.030	.011	− 0.039	− 2.68	.008
Income^f	− 0.003	.005	− 0.009	− 0.62	.534
Political ideology^g	0.029	.015	0.027	1.99	.047
						.181

^aThe reference category for gender is ‘male’
^bThe reference category for race/ethnicity is ‘White’
^cThe reference category for religion is ‘Baptist’
^d ‘Frequency’ stands for the frequency of religious service attendance. 1 = Never, 2 = About once a year, 3 = A few times a year, 4 = Once a month or more, 5 = Weekly, 6 = More than once a week. It was treated as a continuous variable in the regression
^eEducation level had eight categories and was treated as continuous
^fIncome had 12 contiguous brackets and was treated as continuous
^gPolitical Ideology was measured with a five-point Likert scale where 1 = extremely liberal, 5 = extremely conservative

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