Publication: Parenting by lying in Turkey: associations with negative psychosocial outcomes and psychopathy in adulthood
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Jackson, Rachel
Zanette, Sarah
Lee, Kang
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Parenting by lying-a practice whereby parents lie to their children as a means of emotional or behavioral control-is common throughout the world. This study expands upon the existing, albeit limited, research on parenting by lying by exploring the prevalence and long-term associations of this parenting practice in Turkey. Turkish university students (N = 182) retrospectively reported on their experiences of parenting by lying in childhood, their current frequency of lying towards parents, their present level of psychosocial adjustment problems, and their expression of psychopathic traits. The results found that recalling higher levels of parenting by lying in childhood was significantly and positively associated with both increased lying to parents as well as the expression of secondary psychopathic traits in adulthood. The novel findings uncovered in this paper highlight the potential long-term associations that parental lying to children may have on their psychosocial development in adulthood.
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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10.1057/s41599-021-00877-9