Ratio of types of emotional maturity to the data on susceptibility to deception when using a polygraph method in psychology

The article presents the results of empirical study of the relationship between emotional maturity indicators and the data on susceptibility to deception. The structure and peculiarities of emotional maturity are described; the data on the peculiarity of emotional maturity in adolescence and methods of its diagnosis are summarized. The author argues that the main components of emotional maturity are the peculiarities of emotional expressiveness, emotional self-control and empathy which have specific features on the personal and interpersonal levels of their expression. The program of polygraph research on personal susceptibility to deception in adolescence has been developed and carried out. Statistical analysis of the results obtained allowed to find significant correlations indicating that the higher level of emotional maturity the higher susceptibility to deception is and vice versa. It has been proved that it is the empathy type of emotional maturity which revealed the highest correlation with all the structural rates of susceptibility to deception according to the types of personal emotional maturity.