Ken J Rotenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 117693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken J Rotenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROTENBERG K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2098-9613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The relationship between mistrust and aggression from childhood to adulthood
The study examined the relationship between mistrust and aggression from childhood to adulthood. The participants resided in Portugal and were tested during middle childhood ( M age = 7.5, SD = 0.81 years, n = 445, 240 male), preadolescence ( M age = 11.92, SD = 0.96 years, n = 431, 200 male), mid‐adolescence ( M age = 14.70, SD = 0.91 years, n = 326, 201 male), late adolescence ( M age = 18.14, SD = 1.19 years, n = 410, 216 male), and adulthood …
How Much Should We Trust Others? The Relationship Between Trust Beliefs in Others and Psychosocial Adjustment
Introduction: This study compared the Trust Promotes Adjustment (TPA) approach with the Centralist Approach to Trust (CAT) regarding the relationship between trust beliefs in others and psychosocial adjustment. The TPA predicted linear, whereas the CAT predicted quadratic, relationships between the two. The predictions were tested by analyses for the curvilinearity of data gathered by Teunisse et al. (2020). Method: Six hundred and fifty-one adul…
Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs
Three studies examined age, gender, and trust belief differences in using the consistency principle to judge the trustworthiness of persons who varied in the consistency between their personal standards and behavior. The participants were 78 adults ( Mage = 22 years) in Study 1, 160 children from four age groups (6‐7, 8–9, 10–11, and 12–13, year‐olds) in Study 2, and 46 10–11‐year‐olds in Study 3 ( N = 284). Approximately equal numbers of predomi…
The relation between older adults’ trust beliefs in nursing home carers and adjustment to residential care
The study examined the relation between older adults’ trust beliefs in nursing home carers (NHCs) and adjustment to residential care. Seventy-six older adults (mean age = 83 years, standard deviation = 7 years from UK nursing homes completed standardised scales of trust beliefs in NHCs and adjustment to residential care (satisfaction with care-giving, social engagement in the nursing home, loneliness and a latent measure). As expected, trust beli…
Trust Beliefs in Significant Others, Interpersonal Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders
This study examined relations between trust beliefs in significant others (TBSO), interpersonal stress, and internalizing psychopathology for adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Two hundred and thirty-four adolescents from an acute inpatient unit (154 females, M age = 14.72 years, SD = 1.39 years) completed standardized scales/interviews that assessed TBSO (mother, father, teacher, peers and TBSO as a total score), interpersonal stress, and i…
Loneliness, Food Poverty, and Perceived Benefits of Communal Food Consumption from a Charity Service
In the study, 686 (345 male) patrons of a UK charity communal food service reported their demographic attributes, loneliness, food poverty, and benefits of the service. Food poverty was associated with loneliness. Women reported greater benefits of the service than men. Loneliness and food poverty were greater in middle adulthood and among the unemployed than other groups. Loneliness during middle adulthood and unemployment was associated with fo…
The relation between young adults' trust beliefs in others and interpersonal hostility
The research examined whether, and if so how, young adults' trust beliefs in others were associated with interpersonal hostility. The participants in Study 1 were 139 young adults from the UK (76 women; Mage = 20.8). In Study 2, 88 young adult women from the UK (Mage = 21.5) served as participants. The participants completed a standardized measure of trust beliefs in others (total with reliability, honesty, and emotional subscales). In Study 1, p…
The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research
"Trust is a crucial facet of social functioning that feeds into our relationships with individuals, groups, and organisations. The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research examines existing theories, frameworks and models of trust as well as the methods and designs for examining it. To fully examine how interpersonal trust impacts our lives, Rotenberg reviews the many essential topics trust relates to, including close relationships,…
Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers
This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between children's trust beliefs in social workers and their engagement with social workers were examined. A sample of 112 Italian vulnerable children ( M = 11.4 years, SD = 1 month) were administered the Italian…
Interpersonal Trust across the Lifespan
Police officers' trust beliefs in the police and their psychological adjustment
The public's trust in the police has been the focus of extensive investigation. By contrast, there is a scarcity of research examining police officers' trust in the police. The purpose of the current study was to fill that gap in our knowledge. This study examined police officers' own trust in the police (i.e., personal trust beliefs) and how much they perceived that the public trust the police (i.e., public-ascribed trust beliefs). This study ex…
Trajectories of loneliness during childhood and adolescence: Predictors and health outcomes
The present study employed latent growth mixture modeling to discern distinct trajectories of loneliness using data collected at 2‐year intervals from age 7–17 years ( N = 586) and examine whether measures taken at age 5 years were good predictors of group membership. Four loneliness trajectory classes were identified: (1) low stable (37% of the sample), (2) moderate decliners (23%), (3) moderate increasers (18%), and (4) relatively high stable (…
Interpersonal Trust Consistency and the Quality of Peer Relationships During Childhood
Five hundred five children (267 female) enrolled in school years 5 and 6 in the UK ( M = 9 years and 9 months) completed measures of trust beliefs in peers, best friendships, ascriptions of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness toward peers. Children's social disengagement, peer preference, and peer victimization were assessed by sociometric ratings. It was found that, relative to children with consistent trust beliefs and trustworthiness, and tho…
Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms: An 8-year longitudinal study
Disclosure Processes in Children and Adolescents
A Social Relations Analysis of Children's Trust in Their Peers across the Early Years of School
Two hundred and five (103 female and 102 male) children enrolled in school years 1 and 2 in the UK (mean age 6 years 1 month at Time 1) were tested twice over a 1‐year period. The children reported the promise keeping and secret keeping behaviours of classmates (all peers and same‐gender peers) and provided friendship nominations (Time 2 only). Round robin social relations analyses for all peers and same‐gender peers revealed: (1) perceiver varia…
The Early Childhood Generalized Trust Belief Scale
The relations among young children's peer-reported trustworthiness, inhibitory control, and preschool adjustment
Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint
Loneliness, Sex, Romantic Jealousy, and Powerlessness
The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, items from a revision of an interpersonal jealousy personality scale varying in partner-rival contact, and vignettes depicting partner-rival contact were administered to 194 female and 97 male college students in Study 1. Those measures and a measure of powerlessness, comprising the learned helplessness attribution style, were administered to 44 female and 28 male college students in Study 2. Results showed that…
Stigmatization of Social and Intimacy Loneliness
82 female and 62 male college students judged the psychosocial functioning and acceptability of hypothetical peers that depicted 2 Levels of Loneliness (Lonely versus Nonlonely) x 2 Domains of Loneliness (Social versus Intimacy). Analysis indicated the students stigmatized both social and intimacy loneliness; they ascribed lower psychosocial functioning to and were less accepting of the lonely than nonlonely peer for both the social and intimacy …
The Role of Primary and Secondary Appraisals in the Negative Emotions and Psychological Maladjustment of Children of Divorce
Two hundred and twenty-two children of divorce reported their reactions to stressful life events. They reported the threat posed by the events, self-blame, self-efficacy and negative emotions of sadness, anger and anxiety. Also, children's psychological maladjustment (Depression, Hostility and Anxiety) were assessed. As expected, the children's primary appraisal of threat was associated with all the negative emotions and psychological maladjustme…
Stigmatization of Transitions in Loneliness
A total of 204 college students judged hypothetical peers that represented two types of Current Loneliness (Lonely vs Non-lonely) x two types of Transition in Loneliness (No-transition vs Transition). In the transition condition, the peers were shown as changing over the course of leaving home and attending college, from being lonely to non-lonely or from being non-lonely to lonely. Results showed that the students ascribed psychosocial functioni…
Developmental differences in the understanding of and reaction to others' inhibition of emotional expression
In Study 1,160 individuals from kindergarten (kd), 3rd, 6th, 9th, and college grades were presented story protagonists who facially expressed or did not express sadness/fear when encountering events that likely caused (relevant-inhibitory cause) or did not cause (irrelevant cause) the inhibition of the expression of emotion. In Study 2, 108 kd, 3rd-, and 6th-grade children viewed peers engaging in real interactions similar to the stories. In both…
Loneliness and College Achievement: Do Loneliness Scale Scores Predict College Drop-Out
916 college students enrolled in two consecutive years of introductory psychology (1989 and 1990) were administered the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale at the beginning of the academic year. When controlling for the number of students who withdrew because their grades were poor, loneliness scale scores predicted college dropout for men from the 1989 group and for men and women from the 1990 group. The potential of loneliness, as a state and a trait…
Cognitive processes and prosocial behaviors among children: The role of affective attributions and reconciliations
Although attributions about others' sad emotions have been shown to be positively related to helping behavior, there have been considerable inconsistencies in the fi ndings.This study was designed to investigate the relations of affective attributions, affective reconciliations, and cognitive perspective-taking measures to prosocial behavior.Eightynine preschool through second grade children were administered various social cognition indices (two…
Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint
Loneliness, Sex, Romantic Jealousy, and Powerlessness
The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, items from a revision of an interpersonal jealousy personality scale varying in partner-rival contact, and vignettes depicting partner-rival contact were administered to 194 female and 97 male college students in Study 1. Those measures and a measure of powerlessness, comprising the learned helplessness attribution style, were administered to 44 female and 28 male college students in Study 2. Results showed that…
Same-sex patterns and sex differences in the trust-value basis of children's friendship
The Early Childhood Generalized Trust Belief Scale
The relations among young children's peer-reported trustworthiness, inhibitory control, and preschool adjustment
Stigmatization of Transitions in Loneliness
A total of 204 college students judged hypothetical peers that represented two types of Current Loneliness (Lonely vs Non-lonely) x two types of Transition in Loneliness (No-transition vs Transition). In the transition condition, the peers were shown as changing over the course of leaving home and attending college, from being lonely to non-lonely or from being non-lonely to lonely. Results showed that the students ascribed psychosocial functioni…
Sex differences in children's trust in peers
A Social Relations Analysis of Children's Trust in Their Peers across the Early Years of School
Two hundred and five (103 female and 102 male) children enrolled in school years 1 and 2 in the UK (mean age 6 years 1 month at Time 1) were tested twice over a 1‐year period. The children reported the promise keeping and secret keeping behaviours of classmates (all peers and same‐gender peers) and provided friendship nominations (Time 2 only). Round robin social relations analyses for all peers and same‐gender peers revealed: (1) perceiver varia…
Perception of Lonely and Non-Lonely Persons as a Function of Individual Differences in Loneliness
Ninety-six male and 179 female undergraduates were administered the UCLA Loneliness Scale and judged as people who were prototypically lonely or non-lonely. Consistent with a `social stigma' view of loneliness, individuals attributed lower psychosocial functioning to and were less accepting of the lonely than the non-lonely person. This provided evidence for the prevailing perception of the lonely person as a negative stereotype and the social te…
The relation between young adults' trust beliefs in others and interpersonal hostility
The research examined whether, and if so how, young adults' trust beliefs in others were associated with interpersonal hostility. The participants in Study 1 were 139 young adults from the UK (76 women; Mage = 20.8). In Study 2, 88 young adult women from the UK (Mage = 21.5) served as participants. The participants completed a standardized measure of trust beliefs in others (total with reliability, honesty, and emotional subscales). In Study 1, p…
Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers
This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between children's trust beliefs in social workers and their engagement with social workers were examined. A sample of 112 Italian vulnerable children ( M = 11.4 years, SD = 1 month) were administered the Italian…
Interpersonal Trust Consistency and the Quality of Peer Relationships During Childhood
Five hundred five children (267 female) enrolled in school years 5 and 6 in the UK ( M = 9 years and 9 months) completed measures of trust beliefs in peers, best friendships, ascriptions of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness toward peers. Children's social disengagement, peer preference, and peer victimization were assessed by sociometric ratings. It was found that, relative to children with consistent trust beliefs and trustworthiness, and tho…
Developmental differences in the understanding of and reaction to others' inhibition of emotional expression
In Study 1,160 individuals from kindergarten (kd), 3rd, 6th, 9th, and college grades were presented story protagonists who facially expressed or did not express sadness/fear when encountering events that likely caused (relevant-inhibitory cause) or did not cause (irrelevant cause) the inhibition of the expression of emotion. In Study 2, 108 kd, 3rd-, and 6th-grade children viewed peers engaging in real interactions similar to the stories. In both…
Loneliness, Food Poverty, and Perceived Benefits of Communal Food Consumption from a Charity Service
In the study, 686 (345 male) patrons of a UK charity communal food service reported their demographic attributes, loneliness, food poverty, and benefits of the service. Food poverty was associated with loneliness. Women reported greater benefits of the service than men. Loneliness and food poverty were greater in middle adulthood and among the unemployed than other groups. Loneliness during middle adulthood and unemployment was associated with fo…
Sex differences in children's trust in peers
Same-sex patterns and sex differences in the trust-value basis of children's friendship
Self-Concept in American Indian and White Children: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Seventy-one American Indian and 149 White children from grades 3 through 6 were tested on an open self-description measure and a transformational measure of self-concept. American Indian children referred more frequently to kinship roles, traditional customs and beliefs, and moral worth in their open self-descriptions than did White children. Developmental changes in the organization of self-concept were found in White as well as in American Indi…
Cognitive processes and prosocial behaviors among children: The role of affective attributions and reconciliations
Although attributions about others' sad emotions have been shown to be positively related to helping behavior, there have been considerable inconsistencies in the fi ndings.This study was designed to investigate the relations of affective attributions, affective reconciliations, and cognitive perspective-taking measures to prosocial behavior.Eightynine preschool through second grade children were administered various social cognition indices (two…
Perception of Lonely and Non-Lonely Persons as a Function of Individual Differences in Loneliness
Ninety-six male and 179 female undergraduates were administered the UCLA Loneliness Scale and judged as people who were prototypically lonely or non-lonely. Consistent with a `social stigma' view of loneliness, individuals attributed lower psychosocial functioning to and were less accepting of the lonely than the non-lonely person. This provided evidence for the prevailing perception of the lonely person as a negative stereotype and the social te…
Loneliness and College Achievement: Do Loneliness Scale Scores Predict College Drop-Out
916 college students enrolled in two consecutive years of introductory psychology (1989 and 1990) were administered the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale at the beginning of the academic year. When controlling for the number of students who withdrew because their grades were poor, loneliness scale scores predicted college dropout for men from the 1989 group and for men and women from the 1990 group. The potential of loneliness, as a state and a trait…
Developmental differences in the understanding of and reaction to others' inhibition of emotional expression
In Study 1,160 individuals from kindergarten (kd), 3rd, 6th, 9th, and college grades were presented story protagonists who facially expressed or did not express sadness/fear when encountering events that likely caused (relevant-inhibitory cause) or did not cause (irrelevant cause) the inhibition of the expression of emotion. In Study 2, 108 kd, 3rd-, and 6th-grade children viewed peers engaging in real interactions similar to the stories. In both…
The Role of Primary and Secondary Appraisals in the Negative Emotions and Psychological Maladjustment of Children of Divorce
Two hundred and twenty-two children of divorce reported their reactions to stressful life events. They reported the threat posed by the events, self-blame, self-efficacy and negative emotions of sadness, anger and anxiety. Also, children's psychological maladjustment (Depression, Hostility and Anxiety) were assessed. As expected, the children's primary appraisal of threat was associated with all the negative emotions and psychological maladjustme…
Stigmatization of Transitions in Loneliness
A total of 204 college students judged hypothetical peers that represented two types of Current Loneliness (Lonely vs Non-lonely) x two types of Transition in Loneliness (No-transition vs Transition). In the transition condition, the peers were shown as changing over the course of leaving home and attending college, from being lonely to non-lonely or from being non-lonely to lonely. Results showed that the students ascribed psychosocial functioni…
Stigmatization of Social and Intimacy Loneliness
82 female and 62 male college students judged the psychosocial functioning and acceptability of hypothetical peers that depicted 2 Levels of Loneliness (Lonely versus Nonlonely) x 2 Domains of Loneliness (Social versus Intimacy). Analysis indicated the students stigmatized both social and intimacy loneliness; they ascribed lower psychosocial functioning to and were less accepting of the lonely than nonlonely peer for both the social and intimacy …
Loneliness, Sex, Romantic Jealousy, and Powerlessness
The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, items from a revision of an interpersonal jealousy personality scale varying in partner-rival contact, and vignettes depicting partner-rival contact were administered to 194 female and 97 male college students in Study 1. Those measures and a measure of powerlessness, comprising the learned helplessness attribution style, were administered to 44 female and 28 male college students in Study 2. Results showed that…
Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint
The relations among young children's peer-reported trustworthiness, inhibitory control, and preschool adjustment
A Social Relations Analysis of Children's Trust in Their Peers across the Early Years of School
Two hundred and five (103 female and 102 male) children enrolled in school years 1 and 2 in the UK (mean age 6 years 1 month at Time 1) were tested twice over a 1‐year period. The children reported the promise keeping and secret keeping behaviours of classmates (all peers and same‐gender peers) and provided friendship nominations (Time 2 only). Round robin social relations analyses for all peers and same‐gender peers revealed: (1) perceiver varia…
The Early Childhood Generalized Trust Belief Scale
Disclosure Processes in Children and Adolescents
Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms: An 8-year longitudinal study
Interpersonal Trust Consistency and the Quality of Peer Relationships During Childhood
Five hundred five children (267 female) enrolled in school years 5 and 6 in the UK ( M = 9 years and 9 months) completed measures of trust beliefs in peers, best friendships, ascriptions of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness toward peers. Children's social disengagement, peer preference, and peer victimization were assessed by sociometric ratings. It was found that, relative to children with consistent trust beliefs and trustworthiness, and tho…
Trajectories of loneliness during childhood and adolescence: Predictors and health outcomes
The present study employed latent growth mixture modeling to discern distinct trajectories of loneliness using data collected at 2‐year intervals from age 7–17 years ( N = 586) and examine whether measures taken at age 5 years were good predictors of group membership. Four loneliness trajectory classes were identified: (1) low stable (37% of the sample), (2) moderate decliners (23%), (3) moderate increasers (18%), and (4) relatively high stable (…
Interpersonal Trust across the Lifespan
Police officers' trust beliefs in the police and their psychological adjustment
The public's trust in the police has been the focus of extensive investigation. By contrast, there is a scarcity of research examining police officers' trust in the police. The purpose of the current study was to fill that gap in our knowledge. This study examined police officers' own trust in the police (i.e., personal trust beliefs) and how much they perceived that the public trust the police (i.e., public-ascribed trust beliefs). This study ex…
Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers
This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between children's trust beliefs in social workers and their engagement with social workers were examined. A sample of 112 Italian vulnerable children ( M = 11.4 years, SD = 1 month) were administered the Italian…
The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research
"Trust is a crucial facet of social functioning that feeds into our relationships with individuals, groups, and organisations. The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research examines existing theories, frameworks and models of trust as well as the methods and designs for examining it. To fully examine how interpersonal trust impacts our lives, Rotenberg reviews the many essential topics trust relates to, including close relationships,…
Trust Beliefs in Significant Others, Interpersonal Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders
This study examined relations between trust beliefs in significant others (TBSO), interpersonal stress, and internalizing psychopathology for adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Two hundred and thirty-four adolescents from an acute inpatient unit (154 females, M age = 14.72 years, SD = 1.39 years) completed standardized scales/interviews that assessed TBSO (mother, father, teacher, peers and TBSO as a total score), interpersonal stress, and i…
Loneliness, Food Poverty, and Perceived Benefits of Communal Food Consumption from a Charity Service
In the study, 686 (345 male) patrons of a UK charity communal food service reported their demographic attributes, loneliness, food poverty, and benefits of the service. Food poverty was associated with loneliness. Women reported greater benefits of the service than men. Loneliness and food poverty were greater in middle adulthood and among the unemployed than other groups. Loneliness during middle adulthood and unemployment was associated with fo…
Psychology (30 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Developmental psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 works) · Loneliness (10 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works)