scholarly journals Residential Mobility and Trust: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Need for Closure

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 183449092097475
Author(s):  
Na Zhao ◽  
Kaiqiang Xu ◽  
Ling Sun
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Stable Group ◽  
Moderating Role

This study examined the link between residential mobility and interpersonal trust building. Study 1 revealed a negative association between residential mobility and trust by measuring personal residential-mobility history. Study 2 demonstrated that participants who were momentarily primed with mobility showed a lower investment than participants in the control group in a trust game. The results of Study 3 showed that need for closure moderated the link between residential mobility and trust-building intention. Specifically, lower need-for-closure people had a significantly lower trust tendency in the mobility group than in the stable group. These findings illuminate the underlying influence of need for closure in the link between residential mobility and trust.

scholarly journals Effort investment in uncontrollable situations: The moderating role of motivation toward closure

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-196
Author(s):  
Paulina Szwed ◽  
Małgorzata Kossowska ◽  
Marcin Bukowski
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Energy Conservation Principle ◽  
Principle Of Energy Conservation ◽  
Investment Behaviour

AbstractAccording to the principle of energy-conservation principle, effort investment is usually reduced in situations that are perceived as uncontrollable. This is because when success is recognized as impossible, any effortful actions are no longer justified. However, we predicted that individual differences in uncertainty tolerance, i.e., the need for closure (NFC), may moderate effort investment in uncontrollable situations. We tested this prediction in two experimental studies in which we exposed participants with differing levels of NFC to uncontrollable events, and indexed effort through the assessment of systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses. As predicted, in the uncontrollability (vs. controllability) condition, effort investment decreased significantly among low- but not high-NFC participants. Since gaining certainty and achieving closure is not a critical epistemic goal for low-NFC individuals, exerting extra effort to gain certainty is therefore no longer justified. On the other hand, high-NFC participants do not withhold their efforts, as they are highly motivated to obtain certainty. These results may help to account for contradictory findings in effort-investment behaviour and add substantively to the literature concerning motivation toward closure.

Eviction and Crime: A Neighborhood Analysis in Philadelphia

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110359
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Semenza ◽  
Richard Stansfield ◽  
Jesssica M. Grosholz ◽  
Nathan W. Link
Keyword(s):  
Community Composition ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Estimating Equation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Generalized Estimating Equation ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Neighborhood Analysis ◽  
Neighborhood Poverty ◽  
Moderating Role

In this study, we use generalized estimating equation (GEE) models to analyze how rates of eviction correspond to homicide, robbery, and burglary rates across all residential neighborhoods in Philadelphia from 2006 through 2016. We assess the moderating role of neighborhood poverty accounting for residential mobility, economic disadvantage, and community composition. We find that eviction is associated with all three types of crime in fully controlled models. Additionally, neighborhood poverty significantly moderates this relationship for robbery and burglary, but not homicide. We discuss the implications of these results with attention to policy opportunities to reduce eviction and suggestions for future research.

Well-Being and the Pandemic: Trust in People Matters More Than Trust in Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110616
Author(s):  
Veljko Jovanović ◽  
Francesco Sarracino ◽  
Milica Lazić ◽  
Vesna Gavrilov-Jerković
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Trust In Institutions ◽  
Age And Gender Differences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Trust is an important correlate of well-being, and it plays an important moderating role against adversity. But does this conclusion also hold during pandemics? We address this question by investigating the role of interpersonal and institutional trust for well-being, as measured by five proxies, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. We also examined age and gender differences in the relationship between trust and well-being, and tested the protective role of trust among individuals whose well-being might be at risk during the pandemic. The sample included a total of 5776 Serbian adults ( Mage = 37.00 years, 75% female). The results showed that interpersonal trust has a small but significant relationship with well-being, whereas institutional trust has negligible effects. We also found some evidence for the protective role of general interpersonal trust on well-being among individuals with poorer self-rated health and in a poorer financial situation. Our findings confirm the role of interpersonal trust for well-being in times of crisis, and support previous evidence indicating that promoting interpersonal trust should be a core goal of public policy.

How Do Institution-Based Trust and Interpersonal Trust Affect Interdepartmental Knowledge Sharing?

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinwei Yuan ◽  
Lorne Olfman ◽  
Jingbing Yi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Joint Effect ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Collaborative Task ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Organisational Trust ◽  
Moderating Role

There are two typical forms of trust in organisational settings—institution-based trust and interpersonal trust. The role of interpersonal trust in promoting interdepartmental knowledge sharing has been investigated. The effect of institution-based trust, especially the joint effect of institution-based and interpersonal trust, on interdepartmental knowledge sharing has not been adequately described. This article builds a conceptual model to describe the independent and joint effects of these two forms of trust on the satisfaction and success of interdepartmental knowledge sharing. The moderating role of knowledge tacitness is also described in this model, which is tested on 294 collaborative task scenarios between departments within Chinese IT firms. The empirical results essentially support the proposed model and contribute to organisational trust and interdepartmental knowledge-sharing discussions by clarifying the substantial roles of these two forms of trust in the context of interdepartmental collaboration and knowledge sharing.

The role of the categorization process on the influence of a famous football player on the evaluations of a football team

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogelio Puente-Díaz ◽  
Judith Cavazos-Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Football Player ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Standard Of Comparison ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the categorization of a football player influences the evaluations of a football team among participants from Mexico and to test for the moderating role of need for closure. In order to test the hypotheses, the authors conduct two experiments. Design/methodology/approach The authors used an empirimental approach. Specifically in the experimental condition, the authors brought to mind, in one condition, the team membership of Lionel Messi and assessed the evaluations of Barcelona FC. In the control condition, the authors did not bring to mind the membership of Lionel Messi and only assessed the evaluations of Barcelona FC. Findings Results from two experiments showed that Barcelona FC obtained better evaluations when participants assigned Messi as one of its players. Evaluations were not moderated by a variable known to influence information processing such as need for closure. Originality/value It is a psychological truism that human judgments are context dependent. How good one judges a football team to be, depends not only on the specific qualities of the team, but also on the standard of comparison used to make that judgment. Surprisingly, scant attention has been given to context effects in team or player evaluations (see Puente-Díaz and Puente-Díaz, 2014 for an exception). The investigation seeks to fill this gap.

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