ERIC Number: EJ1424558
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Publication Date: 2024-May
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ISSN: ISSN-1363-755X
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Longitudinal Associations between Lie Evaluations and Frequency: The Moderating Role of Age
Victoria W. Dykstra; Teena Willoughby; Angela D. Evans
Developmental Science, v27 n3 e13465 2024
While previous studies have demonstrated correlations between children and adolescents' evaluations of lies and lie-telling behaviors, the temporal order of these associations over time and changes across this developmental period remain unexamined. The current study examined longitudinal associations among children and adolescents' (N = 1128; M[subscript age] = 11.54, SD = 1.68, 49.80% male, and 83.6% white) evaluations of lies to parents for autonomy and lie-telling frequency to parents and friends. Autoregressive cross-lagged analysis revealed longitudinal associations moderated by age. Among children, evaluations of lies predicted greater lie-telling rates over time. Conversely, among adolescents, lie-telling frequency predicted lie evaluations over time, and evaluations predicted lying to parents over time. These results demonstrate a novel developmental pattern of the associations between moral evaluations of lies and lie-telling.
Descriptors: Deception, Children, Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Correlation, Age Differences, Incidence, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Behavior
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Language: English
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