The Impact of Human Virtues Positive Thinking on Social Trust among Isfahan Citizens
Subject Areas : Educationalromina amiri 1 , seyedali hashemianfar 2 , seyedreza esmaeili 3 , seyedhamid atashpour 4
1 - دکترای رشته جامعهشناسی فرهنگی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد دهاقان، اصفهان، ایران
2 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه اصفهان، ایران
3 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، ایران
4 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، ایران
Keywords: Trust, Social trust, human virtues of positive thinking,
Abstract :
This survey aimed to study the impact of human virtues positive thinking on social trust among Isfahan citizens. The population includes all people aged 18 and above residing in Isfahan. According to the 1390 census, they were 17,910,609 people from whom 388 were chosen by quota sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire on human virtues positive thinking was the data collection instrument and a correlation analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that human virtues positive thinking had direct and positive impacts (0.69) on social trust. In line with this general index, the impact of every single factor of human virtues was tested upon social trust and equity turned out to be the most effective (0.51), among others. Courage and self-lnowledge at the same level were less effective (0.22) on social trust compared to other factors. In general, all factors had significant impact (sig =0.0001) on social trust.
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