Dataset on childhood exposure to parenting by lying and its associations with adulthood psychosocial outcomes in a Singapore sample

Peipei Setoh; Siqi Zhao; Rachel Santos; Gail D Heyman; Kang Lee

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104472

Dataset on childhood exposure to parenting by lying and its associations with adulthood psychosocial outcomes in a Singapore sample

Data Brief. 2019 Sep 3:26:104472. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104472. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Peipei Setoh¹, Siqi Zhao¹, Rachel Santos², Gail D Heyman^{3

4}, Kang Lee^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Psychology Program, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
² Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.

Abstract

The present data are reported in the article "Parenting by Lying in Childhood is Associated with Negative Developmental Outcomes in Adulthood" (Setoh et al., in press). Data were collected using online survey. In this dataset, there are 377 responses from young adults from Singapore who reported on their childhood exposure to parenting by lying, their current deceptive behaviors toward parents, and their psychosocial adjustment. Path analysis was performed to better understand parenting by lying - a prevalent, but under-studied parenting practice.

Keywords: Dishonesty; Externalizing problems; Internalizing problems; Lying; Parenting; Psychopathy.