Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Ph.D. Student of Social Welfare, Allameh Tabataba’i University*
2 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tehran
Abstract
In sociology literature, informal social networks have been recognized as one of the main ways to boost ties and social bonds between people and thus increase social trust, and since the “sport for all” is an informal and voluntary exercise and provides a good atmosphere to increase direct relationships and emotional bonds between people in the community, it seems can be affective in strengthening of social trust through its functions and mechanisms. This study was done to examination the relationship between participation of young people in the “sport for all” exercises and their social trust. The research method is descriptive and correlation design. The population consisted of all young people aged 15 to 29 in Tehran, among them 405 patients selected with multi-stage cluster sampling and divided into two groups “participant” and “nonparticipant” groups, and the components of social trust were measured using the self-made questionnaire. The results show that the average social trust for the participants in sport for all in general (2.96) higher than the average of the variable for nonparticipant (2.84), and this difference was statistically significant, so, it can be said that participation in sport by young people in the study correlated the degree of social trust. The consideration of social trust dimensions showed that mean difference between the two groups about interpersonal trust and generalized trust is statistically significant, but there was no significant impact on the fundamental trust and institutional trust.
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