Abstract
ABSTRACT To investigate whether adolescents approve of disobedience or lying in response to rules that restrict behavior based on gender, 89 younger (Mage = 11.74) and older (Mage = 16.67) adolescents and emerging adults (Mage = 19.97) judged vignettes wherein a child prefers an activity, but the child’s parents indicate that they are not allowed to participate because the activity is 1) “not for boys,” 2) “not for girls,” or because 3) there is a schedule-related concern. Participants rated it more acceptable to disobey parental rules or lie to parents about participation in the activity when the rules were based on gender compared to when the rules were gender neutral. Younger adolescents were less likely to endorse disobeying and lying than older adolescents and emerging adults. Controlling for age and gender, principled endorsement of lying as resistance predicted endorsement of both lying and disobedience in specific vignettes.
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