Trusting Information Systems in Everyday Work Events – Effects on Cognitive Resources, Performance, and Well-being

This dataset contains raw data collected in an online study at the University of Muenster, Germany. The study is part of a larger research project and examined trust in information systems' associations with users' cognitive resources, performance, and well-being within everyday working events, making use of the event reconstruction method (Grube et al., 2008). It further investigated the moderating influence of contextual conditions of the usage event (i.e., users' accountability and workplace distractions), as well as user-related factors. Data collection was divided into two studies: a pre-study in which user-related factors (disposition to trust technology, technology competence, need for cognition, conscientiousness, need forcontrol) were collected; and a main study within which subjects were asked to put themselves back into their last information system usage event using the event reconstruction method and to indicate their trust in the system, assumed outcomes, as well as perceptions of accountability and workplace distractions.