Meaning and perception of trust in public and private life: psychosocial context and cross-national comparison.
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | The concept of trust is essential to humanity and therefore, it underlies many contexts and domains of individual and social life. The trust fundamentally influences relationships among individuals, groups, community, and institutions. Trust enables anticipations in interpersonal interactions and establishing commitments, it leads to feelings of confidence, sharing and intimacy. It expresses beliefs in the persistence and fulfilment of natural orders and moral rules and norms (Onyx, Bullen, 2001). The reported study is part of an international project on language and social representations of trust, responsibilities and entitlements in middle and late adolescence. This paper is based on results of respondents of four countries (Czech republic, France, Scotland, Slovakia), selected from two age-groups (16-18 and 19-21 years old). We try to specify the meaning of trust and to look for relationships among the trust and some other concepts, which represent interpersonal and social life of adolescents. Our research supports former asumptions, that the trust is a polysemic and a heterogeneous concept with different meanings in different languages, in different cultures, and in different socio-political systems (Marková, 2003). Results also show specific relationships between adolescent's trust and his/her another psychosocial characteristics (e.g. optimism, perceived injustice, future expectations). |
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