The Effect of Social Perspective-Taking on Interpersonal Trust Under the Cooperative and Competitive Contexts: The Mediating Role of Benevolence

Figures & data

Figure 1 The average amounts of money sent in the trust game in Study 1. **p < 0.01.

Table 1 The Sample Size of the Participants and the Amount of Money Invested by the Participants Under the Four Conditions of Study 2

		Cooperation Context		Competition Context
		Social Perspective-Taking	Objective Focus	Social Perspective-Taking	Objective Focus
Sample	N	33	33	33	33
Amount sent	M	5.94	5.09	4.24	5.03
	SD	1.56	1.47	1.29	1.19

Figure 2 The average amounts of money sent in the trust game in Study 2. *p < 0.05.

Table 2 The Sample Size of the Participants and the Amount of Money Invested by the Participants Under the Four Conditions of Study 3

		Cooperation Context		Competition Context
		Social Perspective-Taking	Objective Focus	Social Perspective-Taking	Objective Focus
Sample	N	33	33	33	33
Amount sent	M	6.33	5.15	4.30	5.12
	SD	1.19	1.96	0.98	0.96

Figure 3 The average amounts of money sent in the trust game in Study 3. *p < 0.05. ***p < 0.001.

Table 3 Results of the Mediation Analysis of Benevolence in the Path from Social Perspective-Taking to Interpersonal Trust Under the Competitive Context

	Benevolence			Interpersonal Trust
	B	SE	95% CI	B	SE	95% CI
Social perspective-taking	−1.03**	0.33	−1.70, −0.37	−0.62*	0.26	−1.15, −.09
Benevolence	–	–	–	0.20*	0.10	0.01, 0.40
Constant	5.82***	0.54	4.74, 6.90	4.79***	0.71	3.37, 6.22
	R^2 = 0.13			R^2 = 0.22
	F(1, 64) = 9.87**			F(2, 63) = 8.65**

Notes: *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01. ***p < 0.001.

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.

Figure 4 Analysis of the mediating effect of benevolence on the relationship between social perspective-taking and interpersonal trust under the competitive context. Path diagrams are shown with unstandardized regression coefficients. *p < 0.05.

Table 4 Results of the Mediation Analysis of Benevolence in the Path from Social Perspective-Taking to Interpersonal Trust Under the Cooperative Context

	Benevolence			Interpersonal Trust
	B	SE	95% CI	B	SE	95% CI
Social perspective-taking	0.97***	0.20	0.57, 1.36	0.62	0.45	−0.28, 1.52
Benevolence	–	–	–	0.58*	0.24	0.09, 1.06
Constant	2.42***	0.31	1.8, 3.05	2.57*	0.85	0.88, 4.26
	R^2 = 0.27			R^2 = 0.19
	F(1, 64) = 23.92***			F(2, 63) = 7.58**

Notes: *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01. ***p < 0.001.

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.

Figure 5 Analysis of the mediating effect of benevolence on the relationship between social perspective-taking and interpersonal trust under the cooperative context. Path diagrams are shown with unstandardized regression coefficients. *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01. ***p < 0.001.