Development of trust in leadership: Exploring a cognitive process model

dc.contributor.authorWhitmore, Corrie Bairden
dc.contributor.committeechairFoti, Roseanne J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDonovan, John J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHauenstein, Neil M. A.en
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:36:04Zen
dc.date.adate2007-05-30en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:36:04Zen
dc.date.issued2007-02-23en
dc.date.rdate2009-05-30en
dc.date.sdate2007-05-10en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explored the cognitive, character-inference process that Dirks & Skarlicki (2004) assert contributes to trust development. Self-reported transformational leadership, leader integrity, organizational justice, and leader prototypicality correlated positively with cognitive trust in this sample of 81 student employees (63% female, mean age 20.5) of a large southeastern university. Leader prototypicality, a cognitive evaluation process, partially mediated the relationship between leader integrity and trust. This study's prime contribution was the longitudinal, empirical test of a model of trust development in interdependent leader-follower dyads. Future research may explore other antecedents of trust, assess how the cognitive process of trust development occurs, or investigate the relationship-based social exchange mechanism Dirks and Skarlicki (2004) suggest contributes to the development of affective trust.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05102007-134424en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05102007-134424/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32513en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartWhitmore_Thesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLeadership--transformationalen
dc.subjectleader integrityen
dc.subjecttrusten
dc.subjectLeadershipen
dc.subjectcognitive process modelen
dc.subjectorganizational justiceen
dc.subjectleader prototypicalityen
dc.subjectcognitive trusten
dc.titleDevelopment of trust in leadership: Exploring a cognitive process modelen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen
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