RESUMO
The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS) is widely used, particularly in the preparation of court reports, to derive information on the memory, suggestibility and confabulation of criminal suspects, victims and witnesses. The inter-rater reliability of all these measures was assessed by three raters, using the data of 101 subjects who were tested on the parallel form of the scale (GSS2). The intra-class correlation coefficients for all the memory and suggestibility measures were both very high (.951-.996) and highly significant (p < .001 for all measures), indicating a high level of inter-rater reliability. In contrast, whilst still highly significant (p < .001), the correlations for confabulation on immediate and delayed recall were much lower (.724 and .803, respectively). Guidelines are provided to refine the scoring of memory and suggestibility and to clarify the definition of confabulation.
Assuntos
Direito Penal , Rememoração Mental , Testes Psicológicos/normas , Adolescente , Adulto , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Variações Dependentes do Observador , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Escalas de WechslerRESUMO
A preliminary investigation of the psychological characteristics of 16 children aged between five and 15 years who met the strict diagnostic criteria for Sotos syndrome demonstrated that, while cognitive abilities vary, there are behavioural patterns that are characteristic of the disorder. The children were reported to have high rates of behavioural disturbance at home, particularly tantrums, destructiveness, social withdrawal, and eating and sleeping difficulties. The children were reported to present fewer problems in the school environment. Other difficulties expressed by parents are also described and quantified.
Assuntos
Sintomas Afetivos/psicologia , Transtornos do Comportamento Infantil/psicologia , Gigantismo/psicologia , Deficiência Intelectual/psicologia , Deficiências da Aprendizagem/psicologia , Escalas de Wechsler , Logro , Adolescente , Sintomas Afetivos/diagnóstico , Transtorno da Personalidade Antissocial/diagnóstico , Transtorno da Personalidade Antissocial/psicologia , Criança , Transtornos do Comportamento Infantil/diagnóstico , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Gigantismo/diagnóstico , Humanos , Deficiência Intelectual/diagnóstico , Deficiências da Aprendizagem/diagnóstico , Masculino , Transtornos Neuróticos/diagnóstico , Transtornos Neuróticos/psicologia , Determinação da Personalidade , Leitura , SíndromeRESUMO
The present study investigated the relationship between anxiety, as measured by the State-Trait Inventory (Spielberger, 1983) and interrogative suggestibility, as measured by the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS 2, Gudjonsson, 1987). One hundred and sixty-one suspects detained at two English police stations for questioning were assessed prior to being interviewed by the police. Unexpectedly, trait anxiety correlated more consistently with suggestibility than did state anxiety. The correlations were consistently higher among the Caucasian than the Afro-Caribbean subjects and the Afro-Caribbean subjects were significantly more suggestible than the Caucasian subjects even after their GSS 2 memory and IQ scores had been controlled for. The main practical implications of the findings are that interrogative suggestibility cannot be easily evaluated from the person's self-reported anxiety and the situation in which people are assessed may influence the relationship between these psychological variables.