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Flanagan, Constance A.; Stout, Michael – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
Social trust (i.e., belief that people are generally fair and trustworthy) is important to the functioning of democracies, and trend studies show it has declined. We test hypotheses concerning the development of these beliefs in adolescence. Based on surveys of 1,535 adolescents collected over 2 years, we find that middle and late adolescents had…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Structural Equation Models, Late Adolescents, Adolescents