Rotter's comments on the validity of his Interpersonal Trust Scale are discussed in terms of: the validity of the scale with incarcerated delinquents, alternative hypotheses of social class and situational factors to explain our negative results, and the need for further studies before the Interpersonal Trust Scale can be accepted as a measure of interpersonal trust.
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