Henderson Hayden M, Konovalov Hailey, Williams Shanna, Lyon Thomas D
University of Southern California.
McGill University.
Appl Dev Sci. 2022;26(4):679-688. doi: 10.1080/10888691.2021.1963729. Epub 2021 Aug 9.
Forensic interviewers are encouraged to elicit a practice narrative from children in order to train them to answer free recall questions with narrative information. Although asking children about their last birthday has been recommended, concerns have been raised that many children will have nothing to report. This study asked 994 4- to 9-year-old maltreated and non-maltreated children to recall their last birthday. Although a fair number of children initially failed to recall information (9%), virtually all children recalled information with persistent encouragement (99%). Younger children and maltreated children were less responsive and spoke less, but nevertheless, 93% of the youngest children (4-year-olds) and 97% of maltreated children recalled information with persistent encouragement. The results suggest that children's failures to recall information about birthdays are predominantly attributable to a failure to provide additional support.
鼓励法医访谈人员引导儿童讲述一段经历，以便训练他们用叙述性信息回答自由回忆问题。尽管有人建议询问儿童关于他们上一个生日的情况，但也有人担心许多儿童可能没什么可说的。本研究让994名4至9岁受过虐待和未受过虐待的儿童回忆他们上一个生日。虽然相当多的儿童最初未能回忆起相关信息（9%），但几乎所有儿童在持续鼓励下都能回忆起信息（99%）。年龄较小的儿童和受过虐待的儿童反应较慢，话语较少，但即便如此，在持续鼓励下，93%的最小儿童（4岁）和97%受过虐待的儿童都回忆起了信息。结果表明，儿童未能回忆起生日相关信息主要是因为没有给予额外支持。
