Journal of Student Research 2018

The Correlates of Trust Amongst Coworkers with members of importance and prestige, while women valued having team members that they could form personal relationships with. From this finding, it was speculated that perceived similarity may be valued by women more so than men. Women in the study may have placed a greater emphasis on forming personal connections within their work groups. Considering this, it was hypothesized that men and women would differ in the self-reported ratings of perceived similarity relative to trust. H3a: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated to trust overall for women but unrelated for men. H3b: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated to propensity to trust for women but unrelated for men. H3c: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated to perceived trustworthiness for women but unrelated for men. H3d: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be positively correlated to cooperative behaviors for women but unrelated for men. H3e: It was hypothesized that perceived similarity would be negatively correlated to monitoring behaviors for women but unrelated for men. Participants ( N = 78) were recruited via Facebook post to the researcher’s page to participate in an online survey study. Women made up 51.3% of the participants, 24.4% were men and 24.4% chose not to respond. The age of participants ranged from 18-52 ( M = 29.64, SD = 12.39). Of the participants, 73.1% were Caucasian, 1.3% were American Indian or Alaskan native, and 25.6% chose not to respond. The educational background of the participants consisted of: high school/GED 12.8%, some college 33.3%, Associate’s degree 9.0%, Bachelor’s degree 11.5%, Master’s degree 5.1%, advanced professional degree 3.8%, and 24.4% who chose not to respond. Participation was voluntary. No compensation was given for participating in this study. Method Participants

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Trust. The trust survey consisted of 21 items on four different of trust: propensity to trust, perceived trustworthiness, cooperative behaviors, and monitoring behaviors (Appendix A; Costa & Anderson, 2011). For propensity to trust, an example item was, “Most people in this team did not