Social Capital and Creating a Favorable Ethical Environment: Emphasis on Students' Trust and Awareness of Executives

Social trust as one of the indicators of social capital is one of the new concepts that has been proposed today in the economic and social studies of developed societies. Increasing the level of trust as a social capital is very important in shaping a moral environment in society. Therefore, the present study was formed with the aim of evaluating the role of social capital in the formation of a moral environment with emphasis on students' trust and awareness of executive officials.                 

The present study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method. The statistical population of the study was the students of Golestan Azad University, of which 384 people were randomly selected as a sample. The analysis tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were analyzed using non-parametric Chi-Square test and SPSS software.

The results of Chi-square test showed that students with a coefficient of 38.26% have a low level of trust in executive officials. Also, students with high coefficients of 79.74, 77.41, 64.51 and 76.35%, respectively, have high public and social awareness, moderate economic awareness and high political awareness.

Creating a favorable moral environment creates high levels of trust among different segments of society. Also, an ethical society considers awareness as a virtue and strives to increase the awareness of its citizens. With increasing levels of trust and awareness, social capital is strengthened and civil society and civic life are established.