Interpersonal Trust during Childhood and Adolescence

This book summarizes research within the area of trust and trustworthiness during childhood and adolescence.

Ken J. Rotenberg (Edited by)

9781107411753, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 November 2012

346 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

Review of the hardback: 'A collection of wide-ranging and impressive scholarship on a subject matter that has been shamefully neglected by most psychologists. In fourteen lucid chapters, readers are challenged to consider what it means for children and adolescents to trust someone and to be trusted in return, and why some individuals are more trusting and trustworthy than others. Even scholars working in areas somewhat removed from the study of children's developing relationships will find something to contemplate and connections to their own work. Trust me.' Jeffrey G. Parker, University of Alabama

Since the beginnings of psychology as a discipline, interpersonal trust has been regarded as a crucial aspect of human functioning. Basic levels of interpersonal trust among people were believed to be necessary for the survival of society and the development of successful psychosocial functioning. Some research has shown that interpersonal trust is linked to physical health, cognitive functioning, and social functioning (including close relationships) across development. This book presents research in the growing field of interpersonal trust during childhood and adolescence (up to the onset of adulthood). It deals with the extent to which children and adolescents demonstrate the multiple facets of trust and trustworthiness, and how these multiple facets affect their social relationships with a wide range of social contacts: parents, peers, and social groups. It will be of interest to developmental, social, educational and clinical psychologists.

Part I. Conceptual Foundations and Issues: 1. Introduction Ken J. Rotenberg
2. The conceptualization of interpersonal trust: a basis, domain, and target framework Ken J. Rotenberg
3. Neurobiology of interpersonal trust Matilda E. Nowakowski, Tracy Vaillancourt and Louis A. Schmidt
4. Children's sense of trust in significant others: genetic versus environmental contributions and buffer to life stressors Atsushi Sakai
Part II. Childhood: 5. Young children's trust in what other people say Kathleen Corriveau and Paul L. Harris
6. Social relation and mutual influence analyses of children's interpersonal trust Lucy R. Betts, Ken J. Rotenberg and Mark Trueman
7. Siblings and trust Shirley McGuire, Nancy L. Segal, Patricia Gill, Bridget Whitlow and June M. Clausen
8. The role of promises for children's trustworthiness and honesty Kay Bussey
9. Liar liar! Pants on fire: detecting the trustworthiness of children's statements Victoria Talwar and Sarah-Jane Renaud
Part III. Adolescence and Early Adulthood: 10. Trust, but verify: knowledge, disclosure, and mothers' beliefs about adolescents' trustworthiness Nancy Darling and Bonnie Dowdy
11. The role of trust in adolescent–parent relationships: to trust you is to tell you Judith G. Smetana
12. A new scale for the assessment of adolescents' trust beliefs Brandy A. Randall, Ken J. Rotenberg, Casey J. Totenhagen, Monica Rock and Christina Harmon
13. A friend in need is a friend indeed: exploring the relations among trust beliefs, prosocial tendencies, and friendships Gustavo Carlo, Brandy A. Randall, Ken J. Rotenberg and Brian E. Armenta
14. Promoting intergroup trust among adolescents and young adults Rhiannon N. Turner, Miles Hewstone, Hermann Swart, Tania Tam, Elissa Myers and Nicole Tausch.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH], Health psychology [MBNH9], Educational psychology [JNC], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Child & developmental psychology [JMC], Psychology [JM]