Exploring the Associations of Parenting by Lying with Psychosocial Adjustment, Dishonesty, and Culture
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Abstract
Parents aim to instill the value of honesty in their children from a young age (Engels et al., 2006). However, parents often use lying as a means of influencing their child’s behavioural and emotional states – a practice which has been referred to as ‘parenting by lying’ (Heyman et al., 2009). To date, limited research has explored the practice of parenting by lying and its associations with lying and psychosocial functioning in children. Thus, the goal of my dissertation is to broaden the existing research on parenting by lying by exploring the associations of this practice with the development of lying and psychosocial functioning in childhood and adulthood. I achieve this through conducting three novel studies that uniquely and significantly contribute to the current understanding of parenting by lying. More specifically, in Chapter 2, I explored the long-term associations of parenting by lying in childhood with lying and psychosocial functioning in a sample of Turkish adults. I found that adults who recalled higher levels of parenting by lying in childhood lied to their parents more and experienced greater psychosocial adjustment difficulties in adulthood, in particular secondary psychopathic traits. In Chapter 3, I discovered novel categories of parenting by lying, as well as identified predictors of parenting by lying within a sample of Singaporean parents. In addition to discovering two new parental lie categories, I found that parents who reported greater religiosity lied less to their children. Lastly, in Chapter 4, I investigated the association of parenting by lying with lying and the expression of psychosocial difficulties in childhood. I found that parents who reported using more parenting by lying strategies had children who lied more, and that children who lied more experienced greater psychosocial adjustment difficulties. Overall, the collective results of my dissertation suggest that the practice of parenting by lying may have short- and long-term negative associations with the development of honesty and psychosocial adjustment. These results can be used to inform parents/caregivers, teachers, and clinicians on the importance of effectively communicating with children in order to promote optimal development.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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