Study of Relationship between Social Trust and Individual Dispute Among IlamCity’s Youths

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This research is aimed to consider the relationship between social trust and individual dispute among Ilam city’s youth. The population includes all youth of Ilam city (49908 boys and girls) among which according to Cochran's sample size formula, 382 people was selected as a statistical sample using random sampling method. The method type is survey and the technique of information collecting, in addition to the statistic and documented data, is using questionnaire with 81 % Coronbakh alpha. The results showed that social trust from the viewpoint of Ilam city’s youth is 3.46 indicating that the amount of social trust is higher than average range. In addition, in this research, the amount of dispute and contention in Ilam city’s youth in terms of education and gender (male and female) has showed significant difference. But no relation was obsereved between age, marital status, and type of urban residential area and dispute and contention. Therefore, the results of finding’s analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between social trust and individual dispute with the amount of  0.315 and significance of (0.003). In this sense, with the decrease/increase in the amount of social trust to institutions, the amount of individual  dispute and contention increases/decreases.

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