Interpersonal Trust during Childhood and Adolescence [Hardcover]

This book summarizes research within the area of trust and trustworthiness during childhood and adolescence.Interpersonal trust is crucial to human functioning. This book presents research in the growing field of interpersonal trust during childhood and adolescence, highlights its importance for researchers from a wide range of nationalities and cultures, and promotes further research by future generations.Interpersonal trust is crucial to human functioning. This book presents research in the growing field of interpersonal trust during childhood and adolescence, highlights its importance for researchers from a wide range of nationalities and cultures, and promotes further research by future generations.Since the beginnings of psychology as a discipline, interpersonal trust has been regarded as a crucial aspect of human functioning. Basic levels of interpersonal trust amongst people were believed to be necessary for the survival of society and the development of successful psychosocial functioning. Some research has shown that interpersonal trust is linked to physical health, cognitive functioning, and social functioning (including close relationships) across development. This book presents the current research in the growing field of interpersonal trust during childhood and adolescence (up to the onset of adulthood). It deals with the extent to which children and adolescents demonstrate the multiple facets of trust and trustworthiness, and how these multiple facets affect their social relationships with a wide range of social contacts: parents, peers, and social groups. It will be of interest to developmental, social, educational and clinical psychologists.Part I. Conceptual Foundations and Issues: 1. Introduction Ken J. Rotenberg; 2. The conceptualization of interpersonal trust: a basis, domain, and target framework Ken J. Rotenberg; 3. Neurobiology of interpersonal trust Matilda E. Nowakowski, Tracy Vaillancourt and Louis A. Schmidt; 4. Children's sense of trust il,