رابطه ي عضويت در انجمن هاي داوطلبانه با ميزان اعتماد اجتماعي در ميان دانشجويان دانشگاه مازندران

Relationship between Voluntary Associations Membership and Social Trust (A Case Study of Mazandaran University Students)

Statement of the problem: In this article relationship between social trust and civil society (with emphasis on voluntary associations) is empirically examined. In addition, this article attempts to answer this question: what kind of relationship is there between voluntary associations membership and social trust? Method: 457 students of Mazandaran University were chosen and the questionnaires were distributed among them according to proportionate stratified sampling. Findings: Members of voluntary associations did not have higher social trust compared with non-members, but the members of these associations, had higher civil society variables (awareness of social news, satisfaction of life, reciprocity norms and positive attitude toward law enforcement) and fewer non-civil society variables (insecurity, feeling of opportunism and feeling of alienation) and this variables had relationship with social trust. Results: voluntary associations are important for having more civil society variables (such as reciprocity norms and positive attitude toward law enforcement) and less non-civil society variables (such as feeling of insecurity and feeling of alienation) but since civil society variables were in low level and non-civil society variables were in high level, voluntary associations could not show high level of social trust directly.