在关于性虐待的法医采访中,儿童对"是"和"不"问题的详细答案
Zsofia A Szojka1, Thomas D Lyon1
1Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Child maltreatment
|December 4, 2023
概括
年长的孩子在法医采访中比年轻的孩子提供更详细的答案. 这项研究分析了对"是"和"不"问题的答案中的阐述类型,发现叙述和合格答案中的年龄差异.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 法医心理学 法医心理学
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
背景情况:
- 在面试中,孩子们通常会简短地回答"是"或"不".
- 这些未经详细处理的回复中遗漏的具体细节尚未得到充分理解.
- 了解这些遗漏对于在法医背景下准确收集信息至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查儿童如何详细地回答答案的年龄相关的差异,是的-没有的问题.
- 为了分类儿童在法医采访中使用的阐述类型.
- 探索这些年龄差异在详细反应中的认知基础.
主要方法:
- 分析了379名年龄在4~12岁的儿童在有关儿童性虐待 (CSA) 的法医采访中提供的11,187个答案.
- 开发一种新的分类系统,用于不同类型的响应.
- 通过不同年龄组的编制频率进行比较.
主要成果:
- 年长的孩子比年轻的孩子更频繁地进行了详细的阐述.
- 在名义修正或强调否定方面没有观察到年龄差异.
- 年长的孩子更有可能使用叙事阐述,wh-elaborations和合格的阐述.
结论:
- 儿童对问题和答案中隐含含义的理解发展,影响了他们的详细答案.
- 与年龄相关的阐述差异反映了认知成熟和对对话实用性的理解.
- 这些发现提高了我们对儿童在法医环境中的沟通的理解.
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