Influence of Social Networks on Citizens’ Willingness to Participate in Social Governance: Evidence from China

Table 4

Result of factor analysis on social capital.

Measurement item	Principal factor
	1	2	3
How many neighbors do you greet frequently in your community (village)	−0.047	0.847	−0.060
How many neighbors that are considered to be your friends in your community (village)	0.011	0.839	−0.078
How difficult do you think it is to acquire the relevant information on social governance?	−0.019	−0.015	0.831
To what degree do you understand the overall policy and regulations (or institutions) on social governance?	0.000	−0.123	0.804
Trust on the government	0.834	−0.023	0.016
Trust on the social organizations	0.894	−0.007	−0.035
Trust on the NGOs	0.878	0.004	−0.018
Trust on other publics	0.866	−0.033	0.002
Eigen values	3.018	1.438	1.349
% of variance	37.727	17.978	16.859
Cumulative % of variance	37.727	55.705	72.563

Method of extraction: PCA. Rotation: Kaiser-Varimax rotation.