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Differences in Preschool Children's Prosocial Lies by Age, Sex and Effortful Control

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2014, 27(1), pp.1-18
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

강현경 1 Park, Young Shin 2

1신당종합사회복지관
2경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined differences in prosocial lies by age, sex, and effortful control in eighty-six 3- to 6-year-old preschool children, their parents, and their teachers. Prosocial lies were evaluated using six stories. Children's effortful control was evaluated using three different measures: Kochanska's Battery for Assessing Effortful Control as well as both parents' and teachers' ratings on the Children Behavior Questionnaire. Age and sex differences were observed. Prosocial lies increased with age, particularly at age five and six. Girls tended to tell more prosocial lies than boys for events related to the elderly and friends. Children's effortful control, as measured by Kochanska's battery and teachers' ratings, was positively associated with prosocial lies. However, after controlling for age in hierarchical regression analyses, three measures of effortful control did not predict children's prosocial lies. However, when the effects of the subscales of the three measures were examined, mothers' rating of low intensity pleasure and perceptual sensitivity significantly predicted children's prosocial lies even after controlling for age.

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