Young children's interpersonal trust consistency as a predictor of future school adjustment

Betts, L.R. ORCID: 0000-0002-6147-8089, Rotenberg, K.J. and Trueman, M., 2013. Young children's interpersonal trust consistency as a predictor of future school adjustment. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 34 (6), pp. 310-318. ISSN 0193-3973

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Abstract

Young children’s interpersonal trust consistency was examined as a predictor of future school adjustment. One hundred and ninety two (95 male and 97 female, M age = 6 years 2 months, SD age = 6 months) children from school years 1 and 2 in the United Kingdom were tested twice over one-year. Children completed measures of peer trust and school adjustment and teachers completed the Short-Form Teacher Rating Scale of School Adjustment. Longitudinal quadratic relationships emerged between consistency of children’s peer trust beliefs and peer-reported trustworthiness and school adjustment and these varied according to social group, facet of trust, and indictor of school adjustment. The findings support the conclusion that interpersonal trust consistency, especially for secret-keeping, predicts aspects of young children’s school adjustment.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Creators:	Betts, L.R., Rotenberg, K.J. and Trueman, M.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	2013
Volume:	34
Number:	6
ISSN:	0193-3973
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.appdev.2013.09.003 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 10:55
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:44
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/20050

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