Bureaucphobia and Perceived National Resilience

The importance of citizens’ perception and attitude toward state’s performance needs broad studies in this field. Various studies are conducted on citizens’ perception and attitude toward state, most of them have considered inefficiency of the state. A few studies addressed negative perceptions and attitudes toward public section while not related to state’s inefficiency. Present descriptive – correlational paper aims at studying the relationship between bureauphobia and Perceived national resilience. To this end, by surveying the citizens through a questionnaire, the phenomenon of bureauphobia and Perceived national resilience was identified. Then the relations between both variables were investigated. Research population consists of all 18 – 70 year-old citizens who had gone to public organizations at least one time in past year to receive services. Data was analyzed by drawing table and Chi2 test. The results suggest that distrust to states and employees in public section are not only related to the performance of public services and 31 percent of respondents have bureauphobia. Likewise, 31 percent of respondents had negative Perceived national resilience on threats. Finally, findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between Perceived national resilience and bureauphobia.