Validity of a test of children's suggestibility for predicting responses to two interview situations differing in their degree of suggestiveness

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-49

  Finnilä, Katarina ^a,b   Mahlberg, Nina ^a   Santtila, Pekka ^a   Sandnabba, Kenneth ^a   Niemi, Pekka ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Child sexual abuse; Child sexual abuse investigations; Child witnesses; Individual suggestibility; Interrogations; Interviewing; Suggestibility; Suggestive questioning techniques

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUGGESTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SUGGESTION;

EID: 0037699199     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(03)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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