Chapter 11:  Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving Others  Please respond to the discussion prompt (assignment - worth 40 pts)

Chapter 11:  Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving Others 

Please respond to the discussion prompt (assignment - worth 40 pts).  Your prompt response acknowledges your presence/participation for the week.

CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY @11:59 PM.

PRINT AND READ THIS ASSIGNMENT!!!  

DO NOT PASTE THE TRUST SCALES QUESTIONS/RESULTS IN YOUR DISCUSSION REPLY.    

PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS...

The Trust Scales 

The Trust Scale designed by Rempel and Holmes (1986). According to the authors, trust is one of the most important and necessary aspects of any close relationship. They argued that there are three fundamental elements of trust: predictability, dependability, and faith.

1. Predictability is the ability to foretell our partner’s specific behavior including both things we like and dislike. Predictability implies consistency. At the same time, consistency is not enough for confidence to grow if the other’s behavior is negative. A sense of predictability must be based on the knowledge that your partner acts in consistently positive ways.
2. The feeling that your partner is a dependable person is based on the emerging sense that he or she can be relied on when it counts. These judgments depend heavily on how your partner responds in situations in which you might feel hurt or rejected. Has he or she been a supportive and understanding listener in the past?
3. Faith enables a person to go beyond the available evidence and to feel secure that, regardless of how the partner changes, he or she will continue to be responsive and caring.

In scoring the scale, responses to items 3, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 17 are reversed. That is, 1 is changed to 7, 2 to 6, 3 to 5, 5 to 3, 6 to 2, and 7 to 1. A score of 4 is unchanged. For a “predictability” score, add together items 1, 3, 8, 11, 13, and 18. For “dependability,” add 2, 5, 7, 9, 15, and 17 together. For “faith,” add items 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, and 16 together.

Rempel and Holmes suggested that an overall score exceeding 110 indicates a very trusting person. Such people feel they are involved in a very successful relationship and that their love for their partner is very strong. Even when a partner does something negative, it is not taken as evidence of a lack of love or caring. People who score below 90 fall into the low-trust category. In particular, people scoring low on faith express less love for their partner and are less inclined to see their relationship as one of mutual giving. Those scoring between 90 and 110 are described as having “hopeful” trust. They expect their partner to act in a relatively pleasant, helpful, and accepting manner, though they are less confident than the trustful group. The hopeful person is someone who wants to see the best but is perhaps afraid to believe it.

 TAKE THE TRUST SCALE below:  Answer the following questions… SIMPLY COPY, PASTE AND ANSWER THE 5 QUESTIONS BELOW; AFTER COMPLETING THE TRUST SCALE.   DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR RESULTS!!!

1. Did you answer each question truthfully?
2. Did you score as expected?
3. Do you agree with your score?  Why or why not?
4. Did you find this assignment helpful?  Why or why not?
5. Would you consider asking you spouse/partner/mate to take The Trust Scale?  Why or why not?