Studies on intergenerational transmission show that parents could transmit some of their characteristics, values and behaviors to their children.Some researchers concluded that the level of parent’ s trust correlated to that of their child, that is, there is intergenerational transmission of interpersonal trust.Studies from the United States of America, Canada and Germany have provided evidence.However, in China, there is no research examining inter-generational transmission of trust in families with adolescent children.Based on a sample of 198 parent-adolescent pairs, the present study aimed to examine whether parents’ trust could be transmitted to their offspring or not.The study collected participants’ responses to the bargaining game by a questionnaire to measure their levels of trust. The results showed that:1 ) 39.1% of adolescents, 47.2% of fathers and 43.0% of mothers chose to trust the stranger.2) The level of parent’s trust could predict their child’s trust.The possibility of adolescent whose mother was trustful in the bargaining game being trustful was 3.17 times the possibility of those whose mother was trustless. The possibility of adolescent whose father was trustful in the bargaining game being trustful was 2.52 times the pos-sibility of those whose father was trustless.3) the level of mother’ s trust correlated to that of father’ s trust positive-ly.Parents whose trust levels were similar could transmit their trust attitude to their offspring more easily.%父母的信任水平如果能预测子女的信任水平，就表明信任存在代际传递现象。以198个家庭中的青少年及其父母为研究对象，采用投资博弈任务分别测量其信任水平，检验父母的信任是否能预测子女信任水平。结果发现：（1）父母的信任水平能够预测子女的信任水平：如果母亲是高信任者，其子女相信陌生人的可能性是其他人的3.17倍；如果父亲是高信任者，子女成为高信任者的可能性是其他人的2.52倍；（2）父亲和母亲的信任水平存在显著关联，父母信任水平一致的家庭中半数以上子女表现出与父母相同的信任水平。
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