This study aimed to identify factors that are associated with patients' overall trust in their general practitioner (GP). A survey of patients in ten general practices in the East Midlands was conducted. Most patients (76%) reported high levels of trust in their GP. Regression analysis showed that measures of the quality of the GP-patient relationship (GP-patient communication, interpersonal ca...

We maintain that two forms of interpersonal trust predict different work behaviors because they tap different psychological systems of self-regulation. We contend also that the two trust forms interact as a function of the ambivalence they jointly produce. Our model was confirmed in a large sample of engineers employed by a Fortune 500 company. Our study extends prior research that presumes an ...

The scope of this paper lies in the study of the trust factor within electronic transactions. Considerable importance has recently been given to this factor since the Net limits direct interpersonal relations and often does not even allow recognition of the opposing party. The risks of electronic commerce are also often highlighted, demonstrating that the international legal mechanisms currentl...

Trust is a social phenomenon that impacts the situation awareness of individuals and indirectly their decision-making. However, most of the existing computational models of situation awareness do not take interpersonal trust into account. Contrary to those models, this study introduces a computational, agent-based situation awareness model incorporating trust to enable building more human-like ...

The purpose of this study is to propose an interpersonal trust (iTrust) model to better understand the online consumer cognitive and affective reactions in a B2C website. This study provides proposition on the influence of culture (Individualistic and Collectivistic) on the relationship between cognitive-based and web design and affect-based trust to buyer behavior aspects towards purchase inte...

This study uses Trust-TAM to describe and empirically test a behavioral model of software component adoption. Three sets of predictive factors were tested and found to be statistically significant in their relationship with intention to adopt: the consumer’s perception of the trustworthiness of the component producer, the adoption-related characteristics of the component, and the organizational...

The primary purpose of the current research has been to examine the roles of interpersonal, interorganizational, and institutional trust in establishing buyer-seller trust in public B2B e-marketplaces (EMP). Interpersonal trust refers to trust within the buyer-seller dyad. Interorganizational trust is trust between organizations, in this case mainly the buying and the selling company versus the...

Abstract International relations theory has had a trust revival, with scholars focusing on how can enhance interpersonal cooperation attempts between leaders. We propose there is another type of at play in world politics. system feeling confidence the international social order, which indexed especially by its central unit, state persons. System anchors ontological security, and presence an uns...

Trust has been researched from various perspectives, focusing mainly on interpersonal trust in a traditional world of face-toface interaction. Nowadays, technology has changed the ways people interact with each other, and thus the way trust is established or destroyed. Increasingly often we interact with representations of others mediated through technology rather than with people or organizati...