Henderson Hayden M, Wylie Breanne E, Lyon Thomas D
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2025 May;30(2):221-228. doi: 10.1177/10775595241264279. Epub 2024 Jul 19.
We asked 111 6- to 11-year-old maltreated children to tell "everything that happened" on their last birthday, the last time they did something they liked to do outside, and yesterday. All children produced details in response to the like to do and yesterday narratives, compared to 98% of children in response to the birthday narrative. Questions about yesterday were more likely to elicit productive responses (93%) than questions about the child's birthday (90%) or things they liked to do (88%). Older children produced the most details in response to questions about yesterday, and older children's birthday narratives were more productive than those about favorite activities. Narratives about children's birthday and yesterday produced comparable percentages of negative details (15%), whereas 32% of children mentioned something negative when discussing a favorite activity. The results suggest that although children find yesterday easier to recall than their last birthday, the birthday narrative is a productive tool for encouraging children to practice recalling more remote events, preparing them for abuse disclosures.
我们让111名6至11岁受虐待儿童讲述他们上一个生日、上次在户外做自己喜欢的事情以及昨天“发生的一切”。与98%的儿童针对生日叙述做出回应相比，所有儿童针对喜欢做的事情和昨天的叙述都给出了细节。与关于孩子生日的问题（90%）或他们喜欢做的事情的问题（88%）相比，关于昨天的问题更有可能引发丰富的回应（93%）。年龄较大的儿童针对关于昨天的问题给出的细节最多，而且年龄较大的儿童的生日叙述比关于最喜欢活动的叙述更丰富。关于儿童生日和昨天的叙述中负面细节的比例相当（15%），而32%的儿童在讨论最喜欢的活动时提到了负面的事情。结果表明，虽然儿童发现昨天比上一个生日更容易回忆，但生日叙述是鼓励儿童练习回忆更久远事件的有效工具，为他们披露虐待行为做好准备。
