The Trust Game for Couples (TGC): A new standardized paradigm to assess trust in romantic relationships.

ABSTRACT: Trust between couples is a prerequisite for stable and satisfactory romantic relationships. However, there has been no valid research tool to assess partner-specific trust behavior including costly investments in the trustworthiness of the romantic partner. We here present a comprehensive validation of the newly developed Trust Game for Couples (TGC) by means of various self-report and implicit relationship-related measures. The TGC operationalizes trust by measuring an individual's willingness to invest his or her own financial resources in pro-relationship attitudes of their romantic partner (collected by dichotomous responses to relationship-relevant items, e.g., answering yes to "I am absolutely sure that I love my partner"). Thirty-five healthy couples between 20 and 34 years complete

SUBMITTER: Kleinert T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7098626 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature