ABSTRACT
Interpersonal trust is necessary for poor adolescents who attend Vocational High School (VHS), especially in dealing with social situations. The most frequently used measuring instrument for interpersonal trust determination is the Children’s Generalized Trust Belief (CGTB) scale. This study is aimed to develop and testify construct validity of the Indonesian trans-adapted version of the scale as an age-appropriate scale for poor middle adolescents in their VHS years. Thus the scale can be reliable to be used in other similar research in Indonesia. The original scale has been trans-adapted into Bahasa and after twice piloting, with 591 participants (M = 16.78 years) involved in the main study. The scale reaches the high value of internal consistency while Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) modeling has resulted in valid and significant path diagrams, where 4 of 12 loadings are very significant. The differences between this study and those of others may be due to the nature of interpersonal trust as an affect-laden construct.
