TY - JOUR
T1 - Children’s memory and suggestibility about a distressing event: The role of children’s and parents’ attachment
T2 - The role of children's and parents' attachment
AU - Chae, Yoojin
AU - Goodman, Gail
AU - Larson, Rakel
AU - Augusti, Else-Marie
AU - Alley, Deborah
AU - VanMeenen, Kirsten
AU - Culver, Michelle
AU - Coulter, Kevin
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded in part by the Amini Foundation for the Study of Affects and by the National Science Foundation (Grant 0545413 ). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Amini Foundation or the National Science Foundation. We thank Dr. Robin Hansen and Dr. Paul Riggle for their assistance.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Our goal was to identify individual difference predictors of children’s memory and suggestibility for distressing, personally experienced events. Specifically, we examined children’s and parents’ attachment orientations and children’s observable levels of distress, as well as other individual difference factors, as predictors of children’s memory and suggestibility. Children (N = 91) aged 3 to 6 years were interviewed about inoculations received at medical clinics. For children whose parents scored as more avoidant, higher distress levels during the inoculations predicted less accuracy, whereas for children of parents who scored as less avoidant, higher distress levels predicted greater accuracy. Children with more versus less positive representations of parents and older compared to younger children answered memory questions more accurately. Two children provided false reports of child sexual abuse. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.
AB - Our goal was to identify individual difference predictors of children’s memory and suggestibility for distressing, personally experienced events. Specifically, we examined children’s and parents’ attachment orientations and children’s observable levels of distress, as well as other individual difference factors, as predictors of children’s memory and suggestibility. Children (N = 91) aged 3 to 6 years were interviewed about inoculations received at medical clinics. For children whose parents scored as more avoidant, higher distress levels during the inoculations predicted less accuracy, whereas for children of parents who scored as less avoidant, higher distress levels predicted greater accuracy. Children with more versus less positive representations of parents and older compared to younger children answered memory questions more accurately. Two children provided false reports of child sexual abuse. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.
KW - Attachment
KW - Avoidance
KW - Child abuse
KW - Children
KW - Memory
KW - Suggestibility
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897390293&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 24705095
VL - 123
SP - 90
EP - 111
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
IS - 1
ER -