21-1 Intension of Intimate Trust and its Measurement: Validation of the Intimate  Trust Scale

Yi-Chun Lin Mei-Ru Chao
National Cheng Kung University

The objective of this paper was to study the intension of intimate trust and to construct a scale suitable for the measurement of intimate trust amongst college students. The sample was 300 couples recruited in Taiwan for the purposes of this study. The Intimate Trust Scale (ITS) used comprises 27 questions in the form of six-point Likert-type scale, including subscales of forgiveness, reliance,
companionship, faithfulness, and devotion. The results of this study revealed that the ITS has reached satisfactory level of internal consistency reliability, tested with Cronbachαcoefficients .77, .75, .85, .83, .72, and .94 for forgiveness, reliance, companionship, faithfulness, devotion sub-scales and overall ITS respectively. The ITS had shown a clear factorial structure. Expert’s validity and exploratory factor analyses (principal axis factoring with oblique rotation) identified five factors. Each absolute value of factor loading was between .62~ .97, and the cumulative R-square for this model was 81.10%. Furthermore, through the confirmatory factor analysis, this scale had shown that the theoretical model was a good fit for the observed data.

Keywords
forgiveness, devotion, reliance, faithfulness, companionship,  intimate trust, confirmatory factor analysis

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