from a sociological point of view, social trust is an important element of social order. it is strengthened or undermined by certain factors including mass media. the present study, using a survey method with a sample of 400 citizens of tehran, was aimed at examining the effects of mass media on social trust. the study examined the relationship between three media (national television, satellit...

Overview 5 6 Given the importance of trust in online environments, information systems research has recently embraced trust research (e.g., 7 Ba and Pavlou 2002; Gefen et al. 2003, Jarvenpaa et al. 1999; McKnight et al. 2002; Stewart 2003). However, despite the 8 enormous interest in the topic of trust by IS researchers (with 129 published papers listed in ABI/INFORM), most of this research 9 s...

today, women`s social health has become an important and critical issue. social health is the reflection of society`s conditions and it is derived from multiple social factors. intervention in these factors is beyond the medical profession and sociologists are required in this field. on the other hand, trust has become a vital topic in human communities in the present era. considering the effec...

Job satisfaction is of great importance to employees, because sometimes due to the lack of trust in the organization and the lack of job satisfaction, employees are looking to leave the organization and seek a different job. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction of employees of the Agricultural Bank. The research applied in ter...

This article analyzes trust in public institutions. In both theoretical literature and empirical research, a link between social trust and institutional trust has been established. Specifically, this paper casts additional light on this relationship. Moreover, it tests whether institutional trust is dependent on citizens’ perceptions of how well institutions live up to normative expectations he...

Given the uncertainties of e-business, this paper examines the role of institutional trust, which has been viewed as a key facilitator of electronic marketplaces (Pavlou, Tan, & Gefen 2003). In doing so, we draw upon the principles of research on traditional EDI via value-added-networks to develop a set of theory-driven institutional trust-building facilitating conditions; namely, (a) IT connec...

Understanding consumer behavior is of vital importance to consumer oriented e-business models today. In this paper we report on a study into the relationships between consumer perceptions of risk and trust and the intention to purchase at a C2C electronic marketplace. Distinguishing for electronic marketplace settings is that consumer behavior is subject to perceptions of both selling party and...

This study investigated the relationship between institutional trust and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of belief in a just world (BJW) among the elderly. The General Belief in a Just World Scale (GBJW) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) were employed. A self-developed Institutional Trust questionnaire was used to measure participant’ levels of trust in eight institutions. The a...