The Study of the Relationships between altruistic tendencies and Social trust in Interpersonal Relationships: the Case of 18 Years and Older Residents of Yasouj City

Trust is one of the basic elements of social relationship and one of the basic pre-requirements for the economic, social, cultural and political development of each society. Social capital referred to the networks of relationships between people, so that it can be influencing for development and security each society, if it be in sustainable and extensive situation. Greater the social relationships, will lead to better situation in social capital in society. Social capital has various dimensions and parts, from which the social trust is the most major and important concepts and dimensions of the social capital. Social trust is one of important aspects of human relations and the background of participation and cooperation of society members. Trust, is facilitate the participation of society members in the various economic, social, political and cultural backgrounds and increase the tendencies of people for cooperation between various groups. Social trust is the most important motivation for having interrelations in society and enthusiast people for more relations with others. Many social scientists see social trust as a sensation which lead to cooperation and by such sensation and cooperation, human being will be able to solve problems, beside differences. Thus social trust has crucial role in social interactions and associations. This study had been aimed to investigate the relationships between altruistic tendencies and the social trust in interpersonal relationships among Yasouj 18 years and older residents. According to the role of social trust, especially the social trust in interpersonal relationships, in facilitating the social relationships this study is important.
Material & Theories of Coleman, Game theory, and social networks had been used for theoretical framework. Using survey method and questionnaire, statistical society size was 88,278; from which, based on Lin sampling method (Line, 1976), 384 cases were determined as sample size. Face validity and Cronbach's alpha were used for validity and reliability of questionnaire, respectively. Pearson correlation was used for evaluation of relationships between altruistic tendencies and social trust in interpersonal relationships and independent samples t-test was used for evaluation of significant difference in social trust in interpersonal relationships according to marital situation of respondents.
Discussion of Results & Generally the outcomes of the research showed that there has been a significant relationship (sig: 0.000) between the altruistic tendency and social trust in interpersonal relationship. The results of the research also showed that there hasn`t significant difference between the rate of social trust in interpersonal relationships between married and single respondents and the mean of social trust in respondents has been 25.2 (of expected mean= 27).
These findings are compatible with Coleman’s social trust theory and game theory. Based on the game theory, individuals, as social actors, attempt to due to rule game have interaction with each other for their goal achievement. It can be argued that unwritten rule of altruistic tendencies and behaviors for individuals (as a type of social interaction), is the social trust in personal relationships and both of them have synergic function for facilitating the social behaviors. This finding is compatible with Social networks theory, so that the mentioned theory focuses on structure of social relationships. Altruistic tendency is both in compatible with trust to others in personal relationships and lead to trust empowerment in personal relationships. Due to functional adjustment between altruistic tendencies and social trust in personal relationships, their significant relationship is justifiable, theoretically. Findings, also has been compatible with Coleman theory which argued that there is a rational view for trusting and distrusting for people.