Interpersonal Trust and its Influencing Factors of Contemporary Youth

According to survey data of 2006 in Xiamen City,the paper explored the contemporary young people's trust and its influencing factors.It showed that contemporary young people's trust was composed of four parts which were the family relationship trust,the general relationship trust,the random relationship trust and the functional relationship trust.The degree of the family relationship trust was the highest,followed by the functional relationship trust and the general relationship trust,the degree of the random relationship was the lowest.The personal and social characteristics of the contemporary youth basically did not have impacts on their trust,while their community participation,relationship network and their concern on social public affairs contributed to the generation of trust.Therefore,in order to enhance the contemporary youth' interpersonal trust,it should cultivate more social groups,and make the majority of young people actively involve in community groups,form a rich relationship network,thus enhance their concern on social public.