Journal of Student Research 2018

33 The Correlates of Trust Amongst Coworkers was a nonsignificant correlation between the measures of trust and perceived similarity (see Table 3): trust overall, r = .15, p = .548, n = 18, with a R 2 = 0.02, propensity to trust, r = .20, p = .438, n = 18, R 2 = 0.04; perceived trustworthiness, r = .17, p = .512, n = 18, R 2 = 0.03; cooperative behaviors, r = .13, p = .617, n = 18, R 2 = 0.02; and monitoring behaviors, r = -.12, p = .678, n = 18, R 2 = 0.01. Table 3 Summary of Intercorrelations, Means, and Standard Deviations for the measures of trust, perceived similarity, and team satisfaction for men Table 3 Summary of Intercorrelations, Means and Standard Deviations for the measures of trust, perceived similarity, and team satisfaction for men

Measure

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

1.Trust Overall

-

2. Propensity to Trust

.83**

-

3. Perceived Trustworthiness .88**

.73** -

4. Cooperative Behaviors 5. Monitoring Behaviors 6. Perceived Similarity

.85**

.53* -.04

.69**

-

.36 .16

.09 .17

.35 .13 .36

-

.20

-.11 -.04 3.28 0.91

-

7. Team Satisfaction

.56* 4.70 0.55

.72** .44

-.02 5.61 0.84

-

M

4.92 0.84

4.83 0.60

5.08 0.62

3.15 0.51

SD

Note. * p < .05; ** p < .01, n = 19

Discussion

In the current study, it was hypothesized that trust would positively correlate with perceived similarity and results supported this hypothesis. Interestingly, monitoring behaviors, which were predicted to be negatively correlated, was not found to be related to perceived similarity. Monitoring behaviors were defined as being untrusting of one’s group if they felt like they needed to monitor or control their group members, which is why it may be unrelated to the factor of trust. For example, if a group member was controlling others in the team, other factors such as perceived similarity would decrease when members felt like they were being controlled. In general, the replication of Ennen and colleagues (2015) study produced results expected based on trust literature that has shown trust to be influenced by perceived similarity of individuals (Clark & Atwater, n.d.; Costa & Anderson, 2011). One way in which the current study expanded on their research is that relationships between perceived similarity and trust was further broken down by the sex of the respondent. Further analysis revealed that the amount of perceived similarity was only predictive of a trusting