African American mothers talk to their preadolescents about honesty and lying.

Conclusions: Mothers’ affect, communication styles, and message content reflected a no-nonsense approach to transmitting values about honesty to their children. To our knowledge, the current study is the first qualitative observational investigation of low-income African American mothers’ conversations regarding honesty with their children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research