The effect of communication action with the tendency to lie among students (Case study, students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz)

Lying is a social thing, because it is realized in human and social relations. We always lie by imagining the presence and existence of another. Lying is a cultural and negative social phenomenon of moral disgust that is unfortunately common among people in society today. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social capital and communication action with a tendency to lie. The research method is descriptive correlation and the statistical population is the students of Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch with a sample size of 375 people who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data collection was performed using a questionnaire whose validity was calculated by content and form and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha. In the theoretical framework of the research, the theories of Bourdieu, Habermas, etc. have been used. SPSS and Amos software were used to analyze the data. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant inverse relationship between the tendency to lie with social capital (r = -0.179 and p = 0.001) and communication action (e = -0.119 and p = 0.021). There was no significant relationship between contextual variables (gender, age, marital status and level of education) of respondents and tendency to lie (P> 0.05). Keywords: Lying, communication action, social capital, students of Islamic Azad University, Tabriz