Meaning and perception of trust in public and private life: psychosocial context and cross-national comparison.

MACEK, Petr, Mojmír TYRLÍK and Ivana MARKOVÁ. Meaning and perception of trust in public and private life: psychosocial context and cross-national comparison. Porto, Portugal.: neuveden, 2004.

Basic information

• Original name: Meaning and perception of trust in public and private life: psychosocial context and cross-national comparison.
• Name in Czech: Význam a vnímání důvěry ve veřejném a soukromém životě: psychosociální kontext a mezinárodní srovnání.
• Authors: MACEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Mojmír TYRLÍK (203 Czech Republic) and Ivana MARKOVÁ (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
• Edition: Porto, Portugal. 2004.
• Publisher: neuveden

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Audiovisual works
• Field of Study: 50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences
• Country of publisher: Portugal
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/04:00010057
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords in English: trust; adolescence
• Tags: adolescence, trust

Abstract

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).

Abstract (in Czech)

Důvěra je jedním ze základních pojmů, které vstupují do hry v individuálním a sociálním životě člověka. Prezentovaná studie informuje o některých výsledcích mezinárodního projektu, který byl primárně zaměřen na srovnání významu důvěry v různých sociopolitických kontextech (Česká republika, Skotsko, Francie, Slovensko).

Links

• LN00A023, research and development project: Name: Centrum výzkumu utváření osobnosti v etnických a sociálních kontextech

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Centre for the research of the formation of personality in ethnical and social contexts