Analysis of social trust status and its dimensions Among the students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran

Subject Areas : sociology

Somayeh Tajik Esmaeili ¹ , Reza Ardekanian ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Faculty member of the Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Tehran East Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran (Corresponding Author).
2 - Expert of the Supreme Council of Education.

Received: 2020-11-25 Accepted : 2021-01-16 Published : 2025-09-22

Keywords: Social Trust, Honesty, Frankness, Cooperative Tendencies, Trust, Confidence.,

Abstract :

The present study was designed and conducted to analyze the status of social trust and its dimensions among students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran. The research method is descriptive and a questionnaire and survey technique used as measurement tool. For this purpose, a sample of 400 people from all students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 1398 (282,515 people) was selected and the 25-item "Social Trust" questionnaire of Saffarinia and Sharif (2010) were responded, including five indicators of honesty, frankness, cooperative tendencies, Confidence and trust, adapted from Johnson's theory. Analysis of the research data showed that, the general status of "cooperative tendencies" in the studied students was evaluated with an average of 3.90 above average and high. The overall status of "frankness" with an average of 3.34 slightly above average (3), the general status of "honesty" with an average of 3.07 on average, the general status of "confidence" with an average of 2.95 in the average of 3 have been seen and evaluated. The overall status of social trust was observed by the students with an average of 3.38 above average. Findings also indicate that, there is a significant difference (sig <0.05), between male and female students only in "trust" of the indicators of social trust and trust in male students was higher.

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