According to the scientific literature, childrens' cognitive development is not complete until adolescence. Therefore, the problems inherent in children serving as witnesses are crucial. In preschool-aged children, false memories may be identified because of misinformation and insight bias. Additionally, they are susceptible of suggestions. The aim of this study was to verify the levels of suggestibility in children between three and 5 years of age. Ninety-two children were examined (44 male, 48 female; M = 4.5 years, SD = 9.62). We used the correlation coefficient (Pearson's r) and the averages variance by SPSS statistical program. The results concluded that: younger children are almost always more susceptible to suggestibility. The dimension of immediate recall was negatively correlates with that of total suggestibility (r = -0.357 p < 0.001). Social compliance and source monitoring errors contribute to patterns of suggestibility, because older children shift their answers more often (r = 0.394 p < 0.001). Younger children change their answers more times (r = -0.395 p < 0.001).

BACKGROUND: Infertility and its treatment can have a significant impact on the individual's quality of life (QoL). Fertility-specific QoL measures can be obtained through the FertiQoL (Boivin, Takefman, & Braverman, 2011), a questionnaire with six-subscales that consider different core aspects of the person's wellbeing and way of behaving during treatment. OBJECTIVE: Examine the psychometric properties of all six-subscales of the Italian FertiQoL in a national sample of infertile women and explore the effects of the ART treatment phases on different features of fertility-related QoL. METHOD: 323 women, in three different treatment stages, completed the FertiQoL (Diagnostic, Stimulation, Transfer). Raw data were subject to Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and a structural equation modelling was used to validate the hypothesized model. RESULTS: CFA shows a good fit of the data to the FertiQoL hierarchical model (chi-square/df = 1.989, CFI=0.88, RMSEA=0.055). After the deletion of 2 items, all FertiQoL scales have good or more than acceptable internal consistency. SEM analysis showed that the ART treatment phase was positively associated with fertility-related QoL scores both in the Relational (β= 0.14, p<0.05) and in the Tolerability (β= =0.17, p<0.05) subscales. CONCLUSION: All scales of the Italian FertiQoL version maintain good psychometric characteristics; Tolerability and Relational subscales are sensitive to the stage of treatment and may provide relevant information for the medical staff.