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Propensity to Trust (Frazier, Johnson & Fainshmidt)
Psychology: Social & RelationshipsReliability: alpha 0.843 sample items
About this scale
A 4-item measure of dispositional trust — the general willingness to trust others, conceptualized as a stable individual difference.
Sample item(s)
“I usually trust people until they give me reason not to trust them”
“Trusting another person is not difficult for me”
“My typical approach is to trust new acquaintances until they prove I should not trust them”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.84. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Frazier, M. L., Johnson, P. D., & Fainshmidt, S. (2013): Development and validation of a Propensity to Trust Scale. Journal of Trust Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 76–97.
Frazier, Johnson & Fainshmidt (2013): Propensity to Trust. JTR, 3(2), 76–97.
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