A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust.

By J. Rotter. 1967

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Organizational Health of High Schools and Dimensions of Faculty Trust (2001, background): “Rotter (1967), pursuing an interpersonal description of trust, postulated that trust is an expectancy held by an individual or a group that the word, promise, and verbal or written statement of another individual or group can be relied upon.”
A healthy dose of trust: The relationship between interpersonal trust and health (2011, background): “General trust—defined as the propensity to trust others (Rotter, 1967)—has been shown to have a positive influence on longevity and self-reported health.”
Trust in me, trust in you: A social projection account of the link between personality, cooperativeness, and trustworthiness expectations (2014, background): “For example, Rotter (1967) defined trust in terms of a personality trait, namely as a ‘‘general expectancy [.”
Employer brand trust and affect: linking brand personality to employer brand attractiveness (2014, background): “Sung and Kim (2010), building on the model of brand trust and brand affect from Chaudhuri and Holbrook (2001, 2002), found that brand personality traits affect consumer brand trust as well as affect.”
Why and when justice sensitivity leads to pro- and antisocial behavior (2009, background): “Trust has been defined as an ‘‘. . . expectancy held by an individual or a group that the word, promise, verbal or written statement of another individual or group can be relied upon” (Rotter, 1967; p. 651) or, more simply, as a general belief in human benevolence (Yamagishi & Yamagishi, 1994).”
Measuring inter-organizational trust—a critical review of the empirical research in 1990–2003 (2007, background): “Sako and Helper (1998), for example, used a composite measure in which the measures for trust were adapted from economics and psychology in order to reduce measurement error.”
Trust in Automation: Designing for Appropriate Reliance (2004, background): “…trust in one of the following ways: “expectancy held by an individual that the word, promise or written communication of another can be relied upon” (Rotter, 1967, p. 651); “expectation related to subjective probability an individual assigns to the occurrence of some set of future events” (Rempel…”
Development and validation of a propensity to trust scale (2013, methodology): “For example, Rotter (1967) developed one of the most utilised scales to measure trust propensity (Colquitt et al., 2007) but our review of the literature identified three distinct, yet related, issues that have been associated with Rotter’s scale.”
A proposed model of e-trust for electronic banking (2003, background): “Some definitions of trust deal with the belief that the trusted party will be dependable (Morgan and Hunt, 1994), will behave in a socially appropriate manner (Zucker, 1986), will fulfil the expected commitments (Luhmann, 1988; Rotter, 1967), and will generally act in an ethical manner (Hosmer, 1995”
From virtual community members to C2C e-commerce buyers: Trust in virtual communities and its effect on consumers' purchase intention (2010, background): “Rotter (1967) deﬁned such trust as ‘‘ an expectancy held by an individual or a group that the word, promise, verbal or written statement of another individual or group can be relied upon ,” and developed a scale to measure interpersonal trust.”
Trust in Automation (2015, background): “Rotter (1967) began by describing trust as a disposition toward the world and the people in it.”