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College undergraduates were given Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale and Cattell's 16 PF. Intercorrelations between the total score of the Interpersonal Trust Scale and the 16 PF indicated convergent and discriminant validation for the generalized expectancy construct of trust; interpersonal trust tended to be related with personality traits that suggested a social orientation and adaptive functioning. Trust was also viewed as bearing a relationship with concrete thinking and conformity. Correlations between the factors of the Interpersonal Trust Scale (Political Trust, Paternal Trust, and Trust of Strangers) and the 16 PF were similar to the above correlations but less substantial. The total trust score appeared to be a better predictor of personality than any of its factor scores.

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Personality and Generalized Expectancies for Interpersonal Trust

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