Trust in Parents and in Romantic Partners

Amaya Stetson, Julia Grippe

Faculty: Linda Weber

The primary research question of our Senior Seminar class is “What is the relationship between trust in one’s self and the impacts it has on their interpersonal relationships?”

Both presenters, Amaya Stetson and Julia Grippe, will provide an in-depth presentation on their individual research questions: What is the relationship between shared values with the parent trusted most and trust in current romantic partner? And, what is the relationship between having more trust in the biological mother as opposed to the biological father as it correlates to trust in the current romantic partner? Both presenters have the same dependent variable for this research, but will offer a unique perspective of the research in regards to trust in parental relationships.

A survey was created via SurveyMonkey which included 44 questions and had 211 participants. The survey was distributed across social media such as FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat by the professor and students of the class to gain a sufficient amount of responses. All of the data collected through the survey responses was saved and then categorized accordingly in the program SPSS.

The results of both presenters’ research concludes that no significant relationship was found between having more trust in their biological mother than their biological father and having more trust in their romantic partner; and those who had shared values with the parent they trusted the most were more likely to have a great amount of trust with their current romantic partner.