Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age.

Autor: Dykstra VW; Psychology Department, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada., Willoughby T; Psychology Department, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada., Evans AD; Psychology Department, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Developmental science [Dev Sci] 2024 May; Vol. 27 (3), pp. e13465. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 18.
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13465
Abstrakt: 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 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. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: Children and adolescents' evaluations of lie-telling and lie-telling frequency were associated longitudinally, but the direction of this association was moderated by age. Among children, more positive lie evaluations predicted greater lie-telling to parents and friends over time. Among adolescents, more positive lie evaluations predicted lying more often to parents over time; lying more to parents and friends predicted more positive evaluations over time. These findings suggest a novel developmental pattern regarding the temporal order of the association between evaluations of lie-telling and lie-telling frequency.
(© 2023 The Authors. Developmental Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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