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ERIC Number: EJ1382916
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jul
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0165-0254
EISSN: EISSN-1464-0651
Parental Warmth Moderates the Relation between Children's Lying and Theory-of-Mind
Ding, Xiao Pan; Tay, Cleo; Goh, Shu Juan; Hong, Ryan Y.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, v47 n4 p306-316 Jul 2023
Lying is a prevalent and normative behavior in young children. Conceptually, it is strongly linked with children's theory-of-mind development. However, empirical studies show that the link between children's lying and theory-of-mind is heterogeneous. This study examined whether parental control and parental warmth moderate the link between children's lying and theory-of-mind understanding. Three- to six-year-old Singaporean children (N = 116, M[subscript age] = 59 months, 59 male, 81.0% Chinese) participated in the temptation resistance paradigm, in which they were asked to guess the identity of a toy but instructed not to peek at it when left alone. Parental control and parental warmth were assessed via a parent-child interactive game. Results showed that the relation between children's maintenance of their initial lie and general theory-of-mind understanding was moderated by parental warmth. Specifically, there was a negative relation between children's lying and theory-of-mind for dyads with high parental warmth, but a positive relation between children's lying and theory-of-mind for dyads with low parental warmth. Overall, the findings suggest that children's lying behavior is the outcome of a complex interaction between cognitive and social factors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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