Explanation on the Relationship between Type of Trust and Various Aspects of Security in Kashan City

The present article generally aims at reviewing the relationship between various types of societal trust including fundamental trust, interpersonal trust, generalized trust and institutional/civil trust; and citizens’ social security feeling in terms of political, social and physical security. The research is of survey type, and has been conducted through using questionnaire, among citizens of age 18 and 18 plus in Kashan city in Iranian calendar year 1391(ended on March 2012 21).Multistage cluster sampling was used in the research. N=362, which was considered through using Cochran formula. Although 400 questionnaires were distributed, just 359 questionnaires were filled in by citizens, and the required information was extracted from them. The most important results of testing the relationship between research variables indicated that there is significant relationship between the examined aspects of societal trust in this research including fundamental trust, interpersonal trust, generalized trust, institutional/civil trust; and manifold aspects of societal security feeling. While considering examination of the relationship between context variables (gender, age, marital status, occupation, level of education, and family income) and societal security feeling it came out that there is no significant relationship between these two variables. The results achieved from analyzing multivariables indicate that the research independent variables have managed to explain %24 of the changes of dependent variables. The findings achieved from path analysis curve indicate that the total impact level of interpersonal trust on societal security feeling is %10,on variable of institutional/civil trust is %45,onvariable of occupational status is %10,and finally on variable of marital status is %13.