Immediate and delayed suggestibility among suspected child victims of sexual abuse

Vagni, Monia; Maiorano, Tiziana; Pajardi, Daniela; Gudjónsson, Gisli H.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.02.007

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“…The findings demonstrate a difference in the type of suggestibility (i.e., immediate versus delayed) and history of sexual abuse versus the impact of the event in terms of the number of traumatic symptoms. The evidence is that a history of sexual abuse per se is more strongly associated with immediate than delayed suggestibility (see Vagni et al, 2015), whereas the current findings clearly show that the impact of the abuse in terms of number of traumatic symptoms is primarily related to delayed suggestibility (Vagni et al, 2018). These are novel findings with important theoretical and forensic implications.…”

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“…Lee found that age predicted immediate suggestibility, but not delayed suggestibility. Vagni et al (2015) measured the association between immediate and delayed suggestibility in children (7 to 16 years), using the GSS 2 to measure both, and found no significant relationship. Nor did delayed suggestibility correlate significantly with either immediate or delayed recall on the GSS 2.…”

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The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

Gudjónsson

Vagni

Maiorano

et al. 2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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There is general absence of research about the relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused. The participants were 134 children aged between 7 and 17 years with a history of reported sexual abuse. All children completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2), a non-verbal IQ test, and The University of California at Los Angeles Child/Adolescent Reaction Index for posttraumatic stress (UCLA-PTSD-RI-5). Delayed suggestibility was measured after a 1 week delay. A Hierarchical Regression showed that trauma symptoms accounted overall for 43.4% of the variance in delayed suggestibility after controlling for age, sex, IQ, and immediate recall (a large effect size). There was a small shared variance between trauma and immediate suggestibility (low effect size). The findings strongly suggest that the severity of trauma symptoms impact more on delayed than immediate suggestibility. The theoretical and forensic implications are discussed.

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The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

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Vagni

Maiorano

et al. 2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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“…The forensic interview is a social situation that can generate stress reactions, uncertainty, and expectations of success in both adults and children (Gudjonsson 2003(Gudjonsson , 2018Gudjonsson and Clark 1986;Vagni et al 2015Vagni et al , 2018.…”

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“…On the other hand, there are studies that have used adult samples with respect to both immediate suggestibility (Gudjonsson 1988;Forrester et al 2001;Howard and Hong 2002;Bain et al 2015) and delayed suggestibility (Zhu et al 2010). Starting from the results of these studies we aimed to analyze the relationship between coping strategies and immediate and delayed suggestibility among children using an additional procedure for measuring suggestibility through the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (Vagni et al 2015;Gudjonsson et al 2016) as used in several studies on samples of children (Vagni et al 2017(Vagni et al , 2018Maiorano and Vagni 2019;Gudjonsson et al 2020Gudjonsson et al , 2021.…”

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Coping Strategies, Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility among Children and Adolescents

Maiorano

Vagni

2020

Social Sciences

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Knowing the factors that influence children’s suggestibility is important in implementing the psychological variables to be evaluated during a forensic evaluation. In the interrogative suggestibility model, coping strategies intervene in determining the acceptance or rejection of the leading question. However, studies that investigated the relationship between interrogative suggestibility and coping strategies had mixed results. Avoidance-oriented coping is associated with high level to immediate suggestibility and problem-focused with low levels. In this study, we measured immediate suggestibility, delayed suggestibility, and coping strategies in a sample of 100 children. We hypothesized that avoidance-oriented coping strategies have a predictive effect in increasing immediate suggestibility levels, in particular avoidance-oriented coping oriented towards the tendency to accept leading questions. No effect of coping strategies was expected on delayed suggestibility. All children completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS 2), a non-verbal IQ test, and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). Coping strategies were not related to delayed suggestibility, but avoidance-oriented coping correlated positively with immediate suggestibility. Avoidance-oriented coping emerged as the only significant predictive model for shift and total suggestibility, and its subscale distraction emerged as a predictor for Yield 1 and Yield 2. No predictors emerged for delayed suggestibility. Results are discussed for their theoretical implications.

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“…Delayed suggestibility involves incorporating misleading information presented earlier into a subsequent test (Gudjonsson, 2017) and could become an index of internalization. It has been recently examined utilizing the GSS (e.g., Gudjonsson et al, 2016;Vagni, Maiorano, Pajardi, & Gudjonsson, 2015). In future studies, it is important to investigate delayed suggestibility in order to assess whether participants internalized the previous information.…”

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Comparison between Japanese online and standard administrations of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 and effects of post‐warning

Wachi

Watanabe

Yokota

et al. 2018

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose This study aimed to develop the Japanese online version of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 (GSS2). The effects of post‐warning and free recall on suggestibility were also examined. Methods A total of 442 people aged between 20 and 59 years took the Japanese online version of the GSS2, and their scores were compared with those obtained via administration of the Japanese standard version in a previous study and those of the British normative sample. The influence of post‐warning (a technique in which the participant is given an apology for the incorrect negative feedback provided on the first day) and free recall instruction on suggestibility was examined in 10 out of the 20 GSS test questions 2 days after the administration of the online GSS2. Results There were no differences in Yield2, Shift, and Total suggestibility scored between the Japanese online and standard versions of the GSS2. The difference in Yield1 scores between the two versions was also small. However, there were significant differences between the Japanese online and British versions in all GSS scores other than Total suggestibility. Further, post‐warning and free recall effectively avoided an increased number of misled responses to leading questions. Conclusions The results obtained demonstrate the validity of the Japanese online version of the GSS2. It was also found that certain instructions could be used to prevent further response suggestibility when any misleading questions were provided.

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Immediate and delayed suggestibility among suspected child victims of sexual abuse

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

Coping Strategies, Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility among Children and Adolescents

Comparison between Japanese online and standard administrations of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 and effects of post‐warning

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