Four types of government trust structures.

Based on 2018 research data on Chinese netizens’ social awareness, this paper examines how different government trust structures influence youth netizens’ political participation. The findings indicate that the reinforcing effect of government trust on political participation follows a declining order: paradoxical government trust, equal trust, hierarchical government trust, and equal distrust. In this context, subjective well-being is introduced as a mediating variable. The results show that the positive impact of subjective well-being on political participation varies across different trust structures, decreasing in the following order: equal trust holders, paradoxical government trust holders, hierarchical government trust holders, and equal distrust holders. Furthermore, heterogeneity analysis reveals that the negative impact of equal distrust and hierarchical government trust is weaker on online political participation than on offline political participation, while paradoxical government trust has a stronger positive effect online than offline. Overall, the influence of government trust structure is weaker for online political participation than for offline political participation.本研究基于2018年中国网民社会意识调研数据，考察不同政府信任结构对青年网民政治参与的影响。研究结果显示，政府信任对政治参与的强化效应按从强到弱依次为：矛盾型政府信任、均等型信任、层级型政府信任以及均等型不信任。在此研究框架下，本研究引入主观幸福感作为中介变量，结果表明主观幸福感对政治参与的正向影响因信任结构不同而存在差异，按效应强度从高到低排序依次为：均等型信任群体、矛盾型政府信任群体、层级型政府信任群体以及均等型不信任群体。此外，异质性分析显示，均等型不信任与层级型政府信任对线上政治参与的负向影响弱于线下政治参与；而矛盾型政府信任对线上政治参与的正向促进作用则强于线下。整体而言，政府信任结构对线上政治参与的影响弱于线下政治参与。