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Volume 13, Issue 18 , September 2012, , Pages 35-57
Abstract
Trust is an unavoidable part of social life and a basic pre - condition for a healthy society. In social psychological approach, the origin of social trust is sought in individuals personality. The goal of this study is to examine the relation between personality types and social trust between three ...
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Trust is an unavoidable part of social life and a basic pre - condition for a healthy society. In social psychological approach, the origin of social trust is sought in individuals personality. The goal of this study is to examine the relation between personality types and social trust between three groups of faculty members, staff and students.
This is a descriptive-correlational study and it is a survey. The statistical population consists of faculty members, staff and students of Azad Islamic university Tehran branch in year 2010. the sample size is equal to 1212.
The results indicate that the extent of trust differs significantly among three groups of faculty members, staff and students. The lowest degree of trust is related to students and the highest degree is related to faculty members. Social trust has significant, positive and direct relationship with the three personality types of extroverted, cohesive, and cognitive in three groups. Social trust has a negative, indirect and significant relationship with neurotic personality type only in faculty members group