“…Sociability is the ability to communicate and interact agreeably with others in the existing environment, also being affable, approachable and socially interactive (Gilliland and Burke, 1926). Cognitive distortion links to mental illnesses (Najavitis et al, 2004;Roberts, 2015;Yurica, 2005;Zaiden et al, 2023), psychopathology and maladjustment in children (Benoit, 2004), sexual offending (Ciardha & Ward, 2013) and delinquent behaviour (Grygier et al,1969), which is also a product of the absence of a parental figure in a child's early life as stated by Bowlby (1978) that deviant behaviour and pathological lying is common in such children. Little (1965) explains in his study how a child's maternal relationship is a major factor in delinquency.…”