Abstract
The problem of regulation of social behaviour has been studied of social representations of modern youth. The authors consider that the mechanism of trust can be seen as the basic principle for constructing relations. This article covers issues related to social representations of trust, manifestations of credulity, direction and basic functions of trust. About 380 people have become the subject of the study: 190 men and 190 women aged between 20 and 30 (the average age being 23.78). The study used the following tools: A questionnaire, the authors’ modification of Sachs and Levy’s Sentence Completion Test and the “Trust Situation” projective technique. The data-processing included content analysis, correlation and factor analysis. The results enabled us to create a classification of people based on differences in perception of the trust phenomenon, trust situations, objects and basic functions of trust. The phenomenon of “trust blindness” has been identified and described for the first time.
Highlights
Trust determines the character and the dynamics of relationships in a society; it ensures and accompanies the process of integration and guarantees stability
Recent years have seen an attempt to use mechanisms of pressure, domination, demonstration of power and authority in order to solve the problem of maintaining social order in modern society, on the socio-economic as well as political level
The main hypothesis of the research is that these social representations are influenced by factors determining the content characteristics of trust, level and direction of trust
Summary
Trust determines the character and the dynamics of relationships in a society; it ensures and accompanies the process of integration and guarantees stability. Recent years have seen an attempt to use mechanisms of pressure, domination, demonstration of power and authority in order to solve the problem of maintaining social order in modern society, on the socio-economic as well as political level. Pressure and demonstration of power cannot solve the problem of shaping trust-based relationships in the long term. For many centuries the problem of understanding has been one of the most popular and relevant issues. It was and remains an object of study for many thinkers, philosophers, politicians etc. The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary provides the following definition: “Trust is a psychic state which makes us rely on an opinion which we consider credible and refrain from our own study of the question which could be studied by us” (Zinchenko, 1998)
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