In recent years, trust has been conceptualized as an important source of social capital, setting off cross‐disciplinary research on both the benefits and predictors of trust at the individual and contextual level. In this paper, we turn to the individual outcomes of living in a trustful context, and explore the relationship between trust, itself one of the main components of social capital, and social support, seen as one of the most important effects of social capital. In particular, we ask how social capital—and the relationship between trust and social support—functions in the context of unequal societies. We model perceived support as an outcome across three levels, from no support to proximate to distal support, and using a cross‐national study of Roma and non‐Roma across 12 European countries, we track the relationship between trust and support across both mainstream and marginalized populations. Our findings suggest that living in contexts with more trust has protective effects particularly for members of marginalized groups: the Roma are more likely to have distal support in contexts with higher trust. We conclude that contextual trust helps to broaden the circle of support beyond family and friends; thus, trust can indeed be a synthetic force that binds individuals together in broadened structures of support.

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信任对支持感的背景影响：东欧和中非罗姆人和非罗姆人的证据。

近年来，信任已被概念化为社会资本的重要来源，在个人和背景层面上引发了关于信任的益处和预测因素的跨学科研究。在本文中，我们转向生活在信任环境中的个人结果，并探讨信任（本身是社会资本的主要组成部分之一）与社会支持之间的关系，社会支持被视为社会资本的最重要影响之一。尤其是，我们要问社会资本以及信任与社会支持之间的关系在不平等社会的背景下如何发挥作用。我们将感知支持的支持程度建模为三个阶段的结果，从无支持到近端支持，再到远端支持，并使用横跨12个欧洲国家的罗姆人和非罗姆人的跨国研究，我们跟踪主流和边缘化人群之间信任与支持之间的关系。我们的发现表明，在信任度更高的环境中生活尤其对边缘群体的成员具有保护作用：在信任度更高的环境中，罗姆人更有可能获得远端支持。我们得出的结论是，上下文信任有助于扩大支持范围，不仅限于家人和朋友。因此，信任确实可以是一种综合力量，可以在广泛的支持结构中将个人捆绑在一起。我们得出的结论是，上下文信任有助于扩大支持范围，不仅限于家人和朋友。因此，信任确实可以是一种综合力量，可以在广泛的支持结构中将个人捆绑在一起。我们得出的结论是，上下文信任有助于扩大支持范围，不仅限于家人和朋友。因此，信任确实可以是一种综合力量，可以在广泛的支持结构中将个人捆绑在一起。