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.
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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