An examination of the association between interviewer question type and story-grammar detail in child witness interviews about abuse

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 407-413

  Feltis, Brooke B ^a   Powell, Martine B ^a   Snow, Pamela C ^b   Hughes Scholes, Carolyn H ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Investigative interviewing; Narrative; Open ended questions; Story grammar

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MALE; NARRATIVE; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STORYTELLING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WITNESS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NARRATION; POLICE;

EID: 77952885215     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.09.019     Document Type: Article

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