The Trust Factor for Children in a Risk Situation

The trust factor in children's socialization results from relatedness of trust as a systemic quality of social communication and the functional basis for building interpersonal relations. In a risk situation trust can provide a background for reducing uncertainty, overcoming alienation and for security/shelteredness attitude, however, it shows the narrowing trend and turns into «particularized trust». The study revealed that the risk situation analysis (based on test drawings) and the children's descriptions of risk-generating situations indicated the significant fall in level of children's trust towards unfamiliar adults.