The Role of Individual and Collective Components on the Formation of Social Trust in Secondary High School Students

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of individual and collective components on the formation of social trust in high school students.

The present study in terms of applied purpose and in terms of performance, it was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The research population in the qualitative section was experts, experts and specialists in the field of education and training and in the quantitative section were the principals and deputies of the second secondary school in Tehran in the academic year 2019-20, whose number was 380. The research sample in the qualitative section according to the principle of theoretical saturation were 15 people who were selected by purposive sampling method and in the quantitative section according to Cochran’s formula were 190 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. To collect data, review of research texts and literature, semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire (110 items) were used. The validity of the interview was confirmed by a review of 10 faculty members and its reliability was calculated by the subject internal agreement coefficient of 0.86. It was obtained from 0.70. Data were analyzed in SPSS and AMOS software by content analysis, factor analysis and structural equation modeling.

Findings showed that in the formation of social trust, two components, individual and collective, played a role. Determination, self-control and collective component had nine dimensions of social commitment, social participation, social support, social respect, and social discipline, loyalty to values, behavioral validity, social development and friendly relations.

The results showed that individual and collective components played an effective role in the formation of social trust in high school students