Validity of Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale: A Study of Delinquent Adolescents

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Abstract
As a partial test of the validity of Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale, the instrument was utilized in an attempt to differentiate male and female delinquent groups from non-delinquent groups matched for age and social class. Since Rotter states that delinquents are less trusting of others, the use of such groups seemed a fair test of the discriminability of the scale, but no significant differences were found on the Interpersonal Trust Scale among these male and female delinquent groups and their non-delinquent counterparts. Thus, the validity of the instrument as a measure of the Trust variable was questioned.

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