Supportive or suggestive: Do human figure drawings help 5-to 7-year old children to report touch?
Supportive or suggestive: Do human figure drawings help 5-to 7-year old children to report touch?
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.75.1.33
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发表时间：
2007-02-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Orbach, Yael
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作者：
Brown, Deirdre A.;Pipe, Margaret-Ellen;Orbach, Yael
研究人员从79名5到7岁的儿童身上提取了包括身体接触在内的阶段性事件的信息，并对这些信息的准确性进行了检验。四到六周后，使用类似于对儿童进行法医调查的访谈协议评估儿童对该事件的回忆。在口头访谈之后，孩子们被问及在提供人物图（仅限图纸）、使用人物图（有指导的图纸）或没有图纸（仅限口头问题）时的触摸情况。在这个接触询问阶段，大多数孩子提供了新的信息。图画组的儿童比口头问题组的儿童报告了更多的错误信息。与法医有关的错误很少发生，也很少详细说明。虽然让孩子们谈论无害的触摸可能会让他们报告不可靠的信息，尤其是当使用人体图形作为辅助工具时，但当使用开放式提示来引出关于所报告的触摸的进一步信息时，错误就会减少。
The authors examined the accuracy of information elicited from seventy-nine 5- to 7-year-old children about a staged event that included physical contact-touching. Four to six weeks later, children's recall for the event was assessed using an interview protocol analogous to those used in forensic investigations with children. Following the verbal interview, children were asked about touch when provided with human figure drawings (drawings only), following practice using the human figure drawings (drawings with instruction), or without drawings (verbal questions only). In this touch-inquiry phase of the interview, most children provided new information. Children in the drawings conditions reported more incorrect information than those in the verbal questions condition. Forensically relevant errors were infrequent and were rarely elaborated on. Although asking children to talk about innocuous touch may plead them to report unreliable information, especially when human figure drawings are used as aids, errors are reduced when open-ended prompts are used to elicit further information about reported touches.