Teachers tend to think that they can handle students appropriately and objectively. Moreover, teachers think that their trust in students is based on students¡¦ behaviors and is independent on their emotions. However, recent studies have found that emotions or moods may intervene in one¡¦s judgments or decision-making processes. Based on the Affect-as-information Model and the Affect Infusion Model, this study investigated whether the valence of mood among teachers would affect their trust in students in the student misconduct context. Specifically speaking, I conducted an experimental study to examine if teacher trust in students would be enhanced with a positive mood, whereas their trust in students would be lowered with a negative mood. One hundred and fifty-one teachers were recruited to participate in this experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three mood states (positive vs. negative vs. neutral), which was manipulated by the emotional event-recollection technique. After the mood manipulation, participants were asked to rate each of students¡¦ reasons for common misconduct behaviors is trustworthy or not respectively. Results showed that teachers in the induced positive-mood condition exhibited a tendency toward trusting in students¡¦ reasons for misconduct behaviors, whereas those in the induced negative-mood condition revealed an inclination toward mistrusting in these reasons. Besides, differences in the tendency between trust and mistrust were not significant for those teachers in a neutral mood-state. Findings of this research supported the predictions suggesting that moods may impact teacher trust in students.

The teacher trust in clients construct embodies the collective level of teacher trust in students and parents. While teacher trust in clients has been recognized as a positive predictor of student achievement controlling for student demographics, previous studies have not tested the effect of teacher trust on student achievement in suburban elementary schools with large and diverse student populations. This study examined the relationship between teacher trust in clients and student achievement. It also examined collective teacher trust in relation to school demographics. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teacher trust in students and parents in relationship to student achievement in reading and mathematics. The secondary purpose of the study was designed to determine if demographic variables had an impact on teacher trust and student achievement. The conceptual framework of trust was based on relationships within and between social groups. Using a sample of 10,464 students nested within 97 participating elementary schools with a large and diverse student populations located in suburban public school districts in South Texas, the researcher determined the level of teachers’ trust in students and parents. Analysis indicated that teacher trust in students and parents reported higher levels of achievement on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills controlling for student ethnicity, economic disadvantaged status, prior achievement, and school size. The within school variance in mathematics achievement explained by the multilevel model was 46%, whereas the within school variance in reading achievement explained by the multilevel model was 24%. The results of the multilevel analysis revealed that between school variance in mathematics achievement explained by the multilevel model was 81%, while the between school variance in reading achievement explained by the multilevel model was 90%. Additionally, the multiple regression analysis indicated that only 72% of the variance in teacher trust was explained by student demographics. Thus, student achievement might be improved through systematic efforts to develop teacher trust in clients. The results of this study suggest improving relationships between teachers, students, and parents can have a positive impact on student performance in reading and mathematics achievement.

Developing trusting relationships and reducing teacher burnout are two pressing issues that principals and superintendents confront on a daily basis in public schools. With the increasing demands of state mandated testing, No Child Left Behind, and improving standards for all students, principals and superintendents need to understand the relationship between the factors that influence student performance and a positive learning environment. The purpose of this study was to analyze teacher trust in the principal and teacher burnout as identified by teachers in selected Texas public schools. In this study, a cross-tabulation of teacher burnout by teacher trust in the principal indicated a moderate to strong association between the two variables. The Pearson product-moment correlation produced a strong, positive correlation of 0.61 (p<0.01) between teacher trust in the principal and teacher burnout. In addition, teachers who indicated low trust in the principal are about 28 percent more likely to experience high teacher burnout. In fact, out of the 315 teachers who completed this survey, not one teacher who reported high teacher trust in the principal scored high on teacher burnout. Next, the researcher explored how selected demographic variables influenced the teacher trust-burnout relationship. According to this study, the number of years that the teacher has worked with the principal has a strong influence on the teacher trust-burnout relationship, and the teacher’s age and the teacher’s experience have a moderate effect. In addition, teacher gender appears to have a slight effect on the teacher trust-burnout relationship, and principal gender, principal age, and principal race appear to not affect the teacher trust-burnout relationship at all. The researcher was unable to draw any conclusions on the influence of teacher race on the teacher trust-burnout relationship due to the small number of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and other race teacher respondents. Finally, the multivariate regression analysis suggested that teacher trust in the principal and the demographic variables in this study account for nearly 40 percent of the variance for teacher burnout. The results of this study suggest that principals must focus on developing trusting relationships with their teachers to reduce teacher burnout.

The purpose of this study was to investigate and deepen the understanding of how children's family structure interacts with trust in teachers and whether a possible connection can be explained by family relationships. We also examined whether the child's trust in teachers can be affected by the child's financial situation. The interest is based on a previous study conducted by us which showed a connection between family structure, relationship and trust. The study was conducted quantitatively by analyzing secondary data using logistic regression analysis. The results of the study showed that there may be a connection between the variables examined because children living with two parents had higher odds of trusting their teachers than children of single parents. The conclusions that could be drawn based on the results and their relation to previous research and theories were that parents may distribute their resources differently to children, depending on the family constellation, which may affect the attachment. The connection, in turn, seemed to affect the relationship between parents and children, which thus seemed to mediate with low trust in teachers, similar to family structure in the form of divorced parents. This was further discussed by mentioning that this cannot be seen as a causal link as other factors may have contributed to this impact. / Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka och fördjupa förståelsen kring hur barns familjestruktur samverkar med tillit till lärare samt huruvida ett eventuellt samband kan förklaras av familjerelationer. Vi ville även undersöka om tilliten till lärare kan bli påverkat av barnets ekonomiska situation. Intresset grundades i tidigare studier genomförda av författarna vilka visade på att det kunde finnas ett samband mellan familjestruktur, relation och tillit. Studien genomfördes kvantitativt genom att analysera sekundärdatat med hjälp av en logistisk regressionsanalys. Studiens resultat visade på att det fanns ett samband mellan de undersökta variablerna då barn som bor med två föräldrar hade högre odds att lita på lärare än barn till självstående föräldrar, oavsett om det gällde mödrar eller fäder. Slutsatserna som kunde dras utifrån studien och dess relation till tidigare forskning och teorier var att föräldrar kunde fördela sina resurser olika på barn, beroende på familjestruktur, vilket kunde påverka anknytningen. Anknytningen tycktes i sin tur påverka relationen mellan föräldrar och barn vilket således tycktes mediera med lågt förtroende för lärare. Detta diskuterades vidare genom att nämna att detta inte kan ses som ett orsakssamband eftersom andra faktorer kan ha bidragit till detta samband.

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