Author (reference) | Definition or description | Elements |
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Rousseau [15] | Trust is a psychological state comprising of the intention to accept vulnerability based upon the positive expectations of the intentions or behavior of another. | Intentions Vulnerability Expectations Behavior |
Alston [16] | Trust is a social expectation that has to do with people’s perception of the integrity, honesty, openness, caring, and competence of an individual or system that is verified by experiences. | Expectation Perception Integrity Honesty Openness Caring Competence Experiences |
Adler [17] | Trust is the subjective probability with which an actor assesses that another actor or group of actors will perform a particular action, both before she or he can monitor such action (or independently of his or her capacity ever to be able to monitor is) and in a context in which it affects his or her own action. | Subjectivity Probability Capacity Context |
Goudge [18] | Trust is a judgment in a situation of risk that the trustee will act in the best interest of the truster, or at least in ways that will not be harmful to the truster. | Situation of risk harmful |
Gilson [19] | Trust is a relation notion that lies between people, people and organizations, and people and events. | relation |
Schee van der [20] | Trust is being confident that you will be adequately treated when you are in need of healthcare. | confident Adequately treated |
Dietz [21] | Trust is an assessment (however thorough) of the other party’s trustworthiness which informs a preparedness to be vulnerable that, in genuine cases of trust, leads to a risk-taking act. | Vulnerable Risk-taking act |
Möllering [22] | Trust is a reflexive process of building on reason, routine and reflexivity, suspending irreducible social vulnerability and uncertainty as if they were favourably resolved, and maintaining a state of favourable expectation towards the actions and intentions of more or less specific others. | Reason Routine Reflexivity Vulnerability Uncertainty Expectation Actions Intentions |
Nooteboom [23] | Trust is the expectation that people don’t let us down based on their intentions, competencies and the circumstances.a | Expectation Intentions Competencies Circumstances |
Meurs [24] | Trust is based on past performance, competencies and intentions.a | Performance Competencies Intensions |
Six [25] | There is trust if you are dependent of someone, for something that is important, that you can-not control completely, and can-not predict with certaintya. | Dependency Control Prediction Certainty |