Trust in persons and things sustains ontological security.

Evidence

Ontological security is one form, but a very important form, of feelings of security in the wide sense in which I have used the term earlier. The phrase refers to the confidence that most humans beings have in the continuity of their self-identity and in the constancy of the surrounding social and material environments of action. A sense of the reliability of persons and things, so central to the notion of trust, is basic to feelings of ontological security; hence the two are psychologically closely related. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 225

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of ontological security; Stevens’s collapsing self-identity when Darlington’s moral grounding fails is a textbook case.
• XREF: connects to: Security rests upon a balance of trust and acceptable risk. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 92; System trust underwrites ontological security but yields no psychological reward — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 271; Tradition sustains ontological security by giving routine intrinsic meaning — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 253 (+9 more)

Related

• System trust underwrites ontological security but yields no psychological reward (similarity 0.88)
• Security rests upon a balance of trust and acceptable risk. (similarity 0.85)
• System trust survives individual disappointments that would destroy personal trust (similarity 0.84)
• System trust cannot supply the mutuality that personal trust provides (similarity 0.83)
• Pre-modern trust is anchored in local place rather than abstract systems. (similarity 0.83)
• Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity (similarity 0.81)
• Modernity’s trust requires the awareness that human activity is socially created, not divinely given. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust is defined by the reason for expectation, not the expectation itself (similarity 0.80)
• Modern trust is vested in abstract capacities, not individuals (similarity 0.80)
• Modern society needs non-personal trust beyond what individuals provide (similarity 0.80)
• Trust requires belief in the other’s motivations, not mere behavioral expectation (similarity 0.80)
• Trust as a distinct social phenomenon emerged only under modern conditions of risk (similarity 0.80)
• External trust depends on learning and system cover, not internal structural reasons. (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is confidence expressing faith in others’ probity or in abstract principles. (similarity 0.80)
• Trusting a person gives a moral hostage to fortune, making trust psychologically consequential. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• System trust underwrites ontological security but yields no psychological reward #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 271
• Tradition sustains ontological security by giving routine intrinsic meaning #expands (0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 253
• System trust operates independently of individuals’ personal readiness to trust #expands (0.60)
• Trusting others and trusting oneself develop together. #corroborates (0.55) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 231
• Moral trust requires temporally stable social contexts to operate #expands (0.50)
• System trust is easier to acquire but harder to control than personal trust #expands (0.50)