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journal article Jun 10, 2021

The relation between young adults' trust beliefs in others and interpersonal hostility

Ken J. Rotenberg ORCID Emma Manley Katie M. Walker
Aggressive Behavior Vol. 47 No. 5 pp. 544-556 · Wiley
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Abstract
AbstractThe research examined whether, and if so how, young adults' trust beliefs in others were associated with interpersonal hostility. The participants in Study 1 were 139 young adults from the UK (76 women; Mage = 20.8). In Study 2, 88 young adult women from the UK (Mage = 21.5) served as participants. The participants completed a standardized measure of trust beliefs in others (total with reliability, honesty, and emotional subscales). In Study 1, participants imagined they were victims of peer provocation. They were required to judge the intention for the provocation and their retaliation to it. In Study 2, the participants were engaged in a lab‐based acquaintanceship interaction that involved the exchange of disclosures. They completed an adjective checklist that assessed anger and evaluated the quality of the conversation. Trust beliefs were linearly and negatively associated with the attribution of hostile intentions, retaliation, anger toward others, and critical evaluation of a developing peer relationship. As expected though, quadratic relations were found. Young adults with very low and those with very high trust beliefs (primarily emotionally based) showed greater attribution of hostile intentions, retaliation, anger toward others, and critical evaluation of a developing peer relationship than did young adults with the middle range of trust beliefs. The linear relations supported the hypothesis that trust promotes psychosocial adjustment. The quadratic relations supported the deviation from the normative trust (centralist) approach primarily for emotional trust beliefs in others.
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Published
Jun 10, 2021
Vol/Issue
47(5)
Pages
544-556
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Ken J. Rotenberg

School of Psychology Keele Uniiversity Keele United Kingdom

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Emma Manley

School of Psychology Keele Uniiversity Keele United Kingdom

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Katie M. Walker

School of Psychology Keele Uniiversity Keele United Kingdom

Cite This Article
Ken J. Rotenberg, Emma Manley, Katie M. Walker (2021). The relation between young adults' trust beliefs in others and interpersonal hostility. Aggressive Behavior, 47(5), 544-556. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21969
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