Parental Warmth Moderates the Relation between Children's Lying and Theory-of-Mind

Autor/inn/en	Ding, Xiao Pan; Tay, Cleo; Goh, Shu Juan; Hong, Ryan Y.
Titel	Parental Warmth Moderates the Relation between Children's Lying and Theory-of-Mind
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 47 (2023) 4, S.306-316 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ding, Xiao Pan) ORCID (Tay, Cleo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/01650254231175835
Schlagwörter	Child Behavior; Deception; Theory of Mind; Parenting Styles; Affective Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Executive Function; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Täuschung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Korrelation; Singapur
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01