집단신뢰와 집단성과: 집단효능감의 매개역할 및 과업상호의존성의 조절역할

The purpose of this study is to explore a mediation mechanism and a boundarycondition of the relationship between intragroup trust and group performance. Drawing on the trust literatures across various disciplines, we focused on twoprincipal forms of intragroup trust (i.e., cognition-based trust and affect-basedtrust) for more integrative understanding of the nature of trust among groupmembers. We then investigated how the two forms of intragroup trust affect theperformance of groups by considering group efficacy as a mediating variable andtask interdependence as a moderating variable. We tested the proposed relationshipsusing a sample of 71 project groups consisting of 357 undergraduate students. The results indicated that affect-based intragroup trust is positively related togroup efficacy, which in turn is related to group performance, regardless of thelevel of task interdependence and that cognition-based intragroup trust is relatedto group efficacy only when the level of task interdependence is high. The resultof conditional indirect effect test further sh0owed that the relationship betweencognition-based intragroup trust and group performance through group efficacyvaries depending on the level of task interdependence. The positive indirect effectof cognition-based intragroup trust was significant only under high taskinterdependence condition. Study limitations and implactions for research andpractice are discussed.