Studying the Factors Affecting Student's Social Trust (Case Study: Payame Noor University, West Center of Tehran)

Trust is one of the fundamentals of social solidarity and it is considered the foundation of legitimacy of the political and economic systems. Also it is a factor of promotion and mobility entrepreneurship. As students are well positioned to influence the cultural, social and even political factors, shaping social trust between them is very important. Research population contains university students of Payame Noor University (west center of Tehran), on the basis of a classified sampling composed of 372 people chosen from this university students. Our research methodology is survey method and all samples have been interviewed. Research findings show that 97.1% of students are at the middle to low level of social trust. The statistical analysis of results show that the components of trust such as religiosity, social relationships and safe structured family are relatively fair; but, in contrast, the rate of deconstruction factors such as low institutional trust and feeling of discrimination is relatively high. Also the research experimental model shows that evaluative variables such as responsibility of institutions and normative rules, access to governmental institutions and feeling of justice (structural and macro variables as fundamental principles of democracy), and the degree of religiosity and social Relationships and existing of safe family (individual variables), directly or indirectly, influences social trust [and explaining 51% of its changes]. According to the research findings, the most effective strategy for increasing trust is to foster democracy and sustain it. Therefore, policy making for the accountability and availability of organizations and institutions, the establishment of normative rules, the removal of obstacles to the realization of social justice at the macro and structural levels serve the purposes of creating social trust.