Lying Behavior, Family Functioning and Adjustment in Early Adolescence

R.C.M.E. Engels, C. Finkenauer, D.C. van Kooten

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    Abstract

    Communication between children and parents has been the subject of several studies, examining the effects of, for example, disclosure and secrecy on adolescents' social relationships and adjustment. Less attention has paid to adolescent deception. We developed and tested a new instrument on lying behavior in a sample of 671 parent-adolescent couples. Analyses on the psychometric properties showed that this instrument had one principal component, and high internal consistency, item-total correlations and inter-item correlations. Lying was moderately associated with other indicators of parent-child communication, the quality of the parent-child relationship, and with parenting practices. In addition, frequent lying was moderately related to behavioral problems and emotional problems. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)949-958
    Number of pages10
    JournalJournal of Youth and Adolescence
    Volume35
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

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