RT Article
T1 Verbal ability, depression, and anxiety as correlates of interrogative suggestibility in children exposed to life adversities
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 23
IS 5
SP 445
OP 458
A1 Curci, Antonietta
A2 Gudjonsson, Gisli H. 1947-
A2 Bianco, Antonella
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1735992771
AB In the present study, we assess the relationship of verbal ability, depression, and anxiety with interrogative suggestibility (IS) in a sample of children exposed to life adversities and requiring assistance by the governmental social service (n = 39), as compared with normal controls (n = 36). The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 was administered to participants in a battery including measures of memory capacity, verbal ability, depression, and anxiety. The finding showed that the ‘assisted’ children were significantly more suggestible than the controls with a large effect size for Yield 1 and total suggestibility. In addition, IS was negatively correlated with verbal memory and ability, but not with anxiety and depression. The two groups differed as to their level of total suggestibility after adjusting for verbal ability. Implications of the findings for the forensic assessment of vulnerable subjects are discussed.
K1 Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale
K1 Interrogative suggestibility
K1 Children
K1 Life adversities
K1 Verbal ability
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2016.1269901