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When Trust is Lost: Student Distrust and Academic Failure

Summary/Abstract: Students’ trust is not only one of the strong pillars of student well-being, but – as trust and trustworthiness are closely related – it predicts many dimensions of the social behavior of the future generation. In our study we research, 1) on the one hand, which are the lines along which the trust in today’s student society is settled (social status, cultural affiliations, regional situation), 2) on the second hand we investigate the impact of trust and its effect on the performance of higher education students, and 3) thirdly we try to find out what role distrust plays in students’ dropouts. We use data from three databases were analyzed by Hungarian Youth 2016, Institutional Effect on Student Achievement (IESA 2015) and Depart 2018). During the analysis we found that according to the national student data, the level of trust in public institutions shows significant differences along the status determined by parental education. However, among the students of the institutions of Eastern Hungary there were no significant differences between the two inequality dimensions observed, as the proportion of the distrusts was very high in all groups. The low level of trust has a significant correlation with the abandonment of studies, the reluctance to reenter the institution, and with the uncertainty that predicts dropping out. The overwhelming majority of the dropouts explain the failure of their studies with the collapse of confidence.

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