The relative impact of different ‘resistant behavioural responses’ on interrogative suggestibility in children: The powerful contribution of ‘direct explanation’ replies to unanswerable questions

IF 0.8 4区心理学 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling Pub Date : 2021-11-15 DOI:10.1002/jip.1581

Gisli Gudjonsson, Monia Vagni, Tiziana Maiorano, Valeria Giostra, Daniela Pajardi

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the different types of resistant behavioural responses to unanswerable questions, their respective individual contribution to the overall variance in resistance efficacy, and their differential protective effect on repeated questioning, interrogative pressure, and delayed suggestibility. The participants were 360 children aged between 7 and 17 years, 180 of whom were suspected victims of sexual abuse and 180 matched peers for age, sex and IQ. All children completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2. Delayed suggestibility was measured after a 1-week delay. The findings show that ‘don't know’, ‘direct explanation’, and ‘no’ answers are unrelated response styles that have individual effects on resistance to misleading questions. ‘Direct explanation’ answers are most stable and robust and increase incrementally with age in children, whilst ‘no’ answers decline. The findings suggest that ‘Don't know’, ‘direct explanation’, and ‘no’ answers are driven by different cognitive and social processes.

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不同的“抗拒行为反应”对儿童疑问性暗示的相对影响:“直接解释”对无法回答的问题的有力贡献

本研究的目的是探讨不同类型的抗拒行为对无法回答的问题的反应，他们各自的个体贡献在抗拒效能的总体差异，以及他们对重复提问、询问压力和延迟暗示的不同保护作用。参与者是360名年龄在7岁到17岁之间的儿童，其中180名疑似性虐待受害者，180名年龄、性别和智商相近的同龄人。所有儿童均完成Gudjonsson易受暗示量表2。延迟性暗示在延迟1周后测量。研究结果表明，“不知道”、“直接解释”和“不”是不相关的回答方式，它们对人们对误导性问题的抵抗力有不同的影响。“直接解释”的答案是最稳定和有力的，并且随着儿童年龄的增长而逐渐增加，而“不”的答案则会下降。研究结果表明，“不知道”、“直接解释”和“不”的回答是由不同的认知和社会过程驱动的。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (JIP-OP) is an international journal of behavioural science contributions to criminal and civil investigations, for researchers and practitioners, also exploring the legal and jurisprudential implications of psychological and related aspects of all forms of investigation. Investigative Psychology is rapidly developing worldwide. It is a newly established, interdisciplinary area of research and application, concerned with the systematic, scientific examination of all those aspects of psychology and the related behavioural and social sciences that may be relevant to criminal.