Journal of Student Research 2018

28 Journal Student Research their personal interests versus focusing on meeting team goals (Costa & Anderson, 2011). Consistent with the results of Ennen and colleagues (2015), it was hypothesized that the different measure of trust would be correlated with self-reported feelings of perceived similarity towards one’s work group members. H1a: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated with trust overall. H1b: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated with the propensity to trust. H1c: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated with perceived trustworthiness. H1d: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated with cooperative behaviors. Given that increased monitoring behaviors would be a sign of an untrustworthy relationship, it was predicted that this measure of trust would show a negative relationship with the other variables, thus: H1e: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be negatively correlated with monitoring behaviors. Also, consistent with Ennen’s (2015) study it was hypothesized that the measures of trust would be correlated with team satisfaction. H2a: It was hypothesized that team satisfaction would be positively correlated with trust overall. H2b: It was hypothesized that team satisfaction would be positively correlated with the propensity to trust. H2c: It was hypothesized that team satisfaction would be positively correlated with perceived trustworthiness. H2d: It was hypothesized that team satisfaction would be positively correlated with cooperative behaviors. H2e: It was hypothesized that team satisfaction would be negatively correlated with monitoring behaviors. While it was expected that this study would largely replicate the Ennen and colleagues (2015) findings, one area that the researcher expanded on was considering sex differences in the relationship between trust, perceived similarity, and team satisfaction. It should be noted that in Ennen’s study, that the sample was predominantly female (70%), as is common in many psychology courses. It has been previously studied and found that men and women differ in the types of groups and team members that they prefer and the characteristics they see as important in groups. Specifically, Skojer-Peterson and Thorssell (2008) found that men prefer to work in teams