NDLI: Employee Attachment: Implications for Supervisor Trustworthiness and Trust

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Author	Frazier, M. Lance Gooty, Janaki Little, Laura M. Nelson, Debra L.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of adult attachment on perceptions of trustworthiness and trust in one’s supervisor. Specifically, we cast trustworthiness perceptions as the cognitive mechanisms by which attachment influences trust, which then influenced work outcomes.Data on attachment, trustworthiness, and trust were obtained from employees, and performance ratings were provided by the employees’ direct supervisor (n = 353, 157 supervisors).Secure and counterdependent attachment had a significant impact on trustworthiness perceptions, and secure attachment was also significantly related to trust, even in the presence of trustworthiness perceptions. Overdependent attachment had no significant influence on trustworthiness or trust perceptions.Adult attachment influences one’s regulatory processes in interpersonal relationships and will certainly influence trust in one’s supervisor. Understanding the process by which attachment influences trust in one’s supervisor via trustworthiness perceptions provides a more comprehensive picture of how trust develops. This study provides evidence that adult attachment influences trustworthiness and trust simultaneously, which may be helpful in the selection process but also in managing the interpersonal aspect of the employee–supervisor relationship.Though trust has been linked to attachment in the literature, no research has examined adult attachment and its influence on trustworthiness perceptions. Our paper provides an examination of attachment and its role in a comprehensive model of interpersonal trust. In addition, we examine attachments influence on trustworthiness and trust beyond the influence of propensity to trust, a commonly studied dispositional variable in the trust literature.
Starting Page	373
Ending Page	386
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08893268
Journal	Journal of Business and Psychology
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1573353X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-06-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Attachment theory Trust Trustworthiness Performance Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology Community and Environmental Psychology Personality and Social Psychology Business/Management Science Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Applied Psychology

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