Abstract
The notion of trust has been discussed among several scientific fields, but it still lacks the joint theory. The goal was to analyze the trust associations of 600 participants and clarify how people associate the word “trust”. Overall, 600 participants produced 1800 associations which were sequentially divided into five domains and 14 categories. The findings imply, that when it comes to trust people tend to associate it mainly with relationships and positive emotions. The fact that associations involved mainly positive emotional states and significant others may show, that trust in itself is something emotional and obviously bound to people we have the strongest bonds with.
Funding source: Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠSR a SAV
Award Identifier / Grant number: 2/0035/20
Funding source: This work was supported by the project VEGA 2/0030/24: Nedôverčivá mentalita a nenormatívne správanie: Od vnímania sociálnej reality k porušovaniu sociálnych noriem
Award Identifier / Grant number: 2/0030/24
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Research funding: Writing this work was supported by the Vedecká grantová agentúra VEGA under Grant 2/0035/20 and by the project VEGA 2/0030/24: Nedôverčivá mentalita a nenormatívne správanie: Od vnímania sociálnej reality k porušovaniu sociálnych noriem.
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Compliance with ethical standards: Authors confirm, that the manuscript adheres to ethical guidlines of both national ethic guidelines and APA. The research was conducted ethically with the opportunity to suspend from it and it was also fully anonymous. The results are reported honestly and the study is not plagiarized.
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Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interests.
Appendix 1: Centrality values of each node in the network analysis
| Closeness | Betweenness | Eigenvector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Significant others | 1.0 | 6.69 | 1.0 |
| Relationships | 1.0 | 6.69 | 1.0 |
| Other relationships | 0.68 | 0.37 | 0.59 |
| Prosocial behaviour | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.88 |
| Science and education | 0.56 | 0.00 | 0.25 |
| Government and politics | 0.68 | 0.24 | 0.59 |
| Public and private services | 1.0 | 6.69 | 1.0 |
| Positive affect | 0.94 | 2.69 | 0.98 |
| Negative affect | 0.71 | 0.36 | 0.69 |
| Cognition | 0.87 | 0.35 | 0.83 |
| Traits | 0.87 | 0.35 | 0.83 |
| Sanctity values | 0.83 | 1.51 | 0.66 |
| Abstract values | 0.79 | 0.47 | 0.83 |
| Practical values | 0.75 | 1.29 | 0.71 |
| Intention to trust | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.88 |
| Uncertainty | 0.83 | 1.26 | 0.66 |
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