The purpose of this study is to validate the trust scale for teachers in Korea. To accomplish this purpose, this study discusses the extant major works on trust and defines the concept of trust and its factors. It also reviews commercially available t...
The purpose of this study is to validate the trust scale for teachers in Korea. To accomplish this purpose, this study discusses the extant major works on trust and defines the concept of trust and its factors. It also reviews commercially available tests on trust and undertakes the preliminary.
At the initial stage, 35 items for the preliminary test are drawn from the theoretical review and the major works on trust, trustworthiness, and trust inventories. Then, 98 subjects are sampled for the preliminary test. Test results are analyzed to develop the main test. After the item analysis and the exploratory factor analysis are undertaken, total items are reduced to 26 items and the reliability coefficients of the trust scale shows to be adequate(.91-.93).
The main test has been done for 457 teachers in the elementary and secondary schools. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis by SAS 8.0, trust scale comes to consists of 3 dimensions(trust on student and parents, trust on principal, trust on college) and 4 trustworthiness(openness, integrity, reliable, intimacy). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis by AMOS 4.0 demonstrate that the trust scale is a valid instrument(NFI, TLI, CFI>.96, RMSEA=.08).