Measurement and Analysis of Relationship between Identity and Political Trust: Case Study, City of Kermanshah

The main question is: what is the relationship between national and religious identities (legitimizing identity) and ethnic and virtual identities (namely protest- resistance identity) with political trust of interviewers in three levels of political system, government institutions and elites? The total finding show the negative- significant relationship between ethnic and virtual identities with political trust and positive- significant between national, family and religious identities and political trust. The independent variables have been determinant in in political trust in political system level at 45 percent, political institutions 39 percent and political elites 19 percent. So all five hypothesis verified as well as all used theories such as institutionalism, uneven development and relative deprivation in ethnic variable in Pierson correlation and virtual identity in all statistics methods. By the means, the findings of this study is same and congruent to another mentioned studies in negative correlation between two protest- resistance identity (ethnic and virtual ones) and political trust for Kurds population or others.