Impact of Social Work Intervention on Villagers' Participation in Rural Governance: From the Perspective of Social Trust
Social work intervention in rural governance demonstrates a significant positive correlation with villagers' participation and social trust. The involvement of social workers in rural governance significantly boosts villagers' participation in local affairs. Villagers in communities with social workers exhibit a 2.691-point increase in their overall participation scores compared to those in communities without such professionals. Moreover, for villagers, the deeper the social work intervention in rural governance, the higher the total score of villagers' participation. The mediation analysis reveals that social trust serves as an important transmission path for social work intervention in rural governance to enhance villagers' participation. Finally, from the perspective of heterogeneity, the impact of social work intervention in rural governance on villagers' participation varies across factors such as age, educational attainment, political status, identity, and working experience in primary-level public organizations. These findings suggest that social work intervention in rural governance effectively forsters the enhancement of villagers' autonomous consciousness and their willingness to participate in self-directed village governance.
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