Coping by deceiving
Developing LYin self‐perceived self‐deception scales and exploring their links to interpersonal deception
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Self‐deception is complex and poses significant challenges for its measurement. The present study developed two measurement tools and explored the associations between self‐perceived self‐deception and various forms of other‐deception. Study 1 ( N = 2018) developed and validated the LYin Self‐Perceived Self‐Deception Tendency Questionnaire ( LYin SDT) and LYin Self‐Deception Awareness Scale ( LYin SDA) to capture accessible self‐deceptive responding tendency and subjectively experienced self‐deception. The new scales were found to be related to denial coping and showed incremental validity in predicting the avoidance of threatening information and post‐threat reflection, respectively. Studies 2–4 investigated how the two scales relate to interpersonal deceptive tendencies. Findings from Studies 2 ( N = 301) and 3 ( N = 305) showed that participants with higher LYin SDT exhibited greater self‐serving dishonesty, including both explicit lies and omissions of truth. Study 4 ( N = 300) applied self‐relevant and interpersonal scenarios, where participants either processed information privately or decided what to disclose to others. Higher LYin SDT was related to more self‐deceptive responses in self‐relevant scenarios, as well as maintenance and disengagement coping tendencies in both scenarios. Together, these findings validate the two scales as effective tools for assessing self‐perceived self‐deception and elucidate the distinct deceiving and coping correlates
Coping (psychology) · Coping behavior · Deception · Denial · Disengagement theory · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Perception · Trustworthiness · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Misinformation and Its Impacts
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