Data on Parents With Greater Religiosity Lie Less to Their Children

The present data are reported in the article “Parents With Greater Religiosity Lie Less to Their Children" (Setoh et al., 2020). The dataset contains self-reported responses from 52 Singaporean parents. Parents completed the Singapore Parental Lying Scale, the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL), and reported their demographic information. For the Singapore Parental Lying Scale, parents indicated their likelihood of telling various lies using a confidence scale. The lie items belong to four categories - instrumental, white, cheating, and superstitious lies. We found that in contrast to Chinese and American parents, greater religiosity among Singaporean parents is related to less lying to children, with the exception of white lies. This pattern of findings suggests that the effect of religiosity on parental lying may be cultural- and religion-specific.