Investigating the relationship between religiousness and social trust among M.A. students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz

One of the most important and impressive factors in integration of community is social trust among individuals and different social groups. When social trust degenerates under different factors, order and integration of community face more challenges. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the relationship between religiousness and social trust among M.A. students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz.  Social trust has been measured through two dimensions of thick trust and thin trust and also, religiousness has been measured through three dimensions of belief, meditation, and canonization. The research method is survey and data was gathered by a questionnaire with a sample of 345 M.A. students. The results indicate that, there is a significant relationship between independent variables including three dimensions of religiousness, as well as marital status, and social trust. These relationships are positive for all of the variables. However there is not a significant relationship between variables such as education discipline, and gender. In multivariate analysis using enter regression method, four variables entered in the model namely belief, meditation, canonization, and marital status. The four variables explain 15.1 percent of the variance of dependent variable (social trust).