Deception, power, and self-differentiation in college students' romantic relationships: an exploratory study.
The relationships among deception, power, and self-differentiation in college students' romantic relationships were explored. As hypothesized, lower total deception scores were found to significantly predict higher self-differentiation scores. Both men and women reported that men held significantly more power in their relationships. A secondary analysis revealed that men were significantly more likely than women to indicate they would be inclined to use deceptive strategies. Counter to the hypotheses, a significant negative correlation was not detected between power scores and omission scores, and positive relationships between power scores and contradiction scores were not found.
Department of Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities