Effects of child age and type of detail reported on credibility of child abuse allegations

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dc.contributor.authorKulisek, Natalie Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-23T16:59:20Z
dc.date.available2020-06-23T16:59:20Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractWith repeated experiences, children’s reports of an event tend to contain fewer episodic, contextually embedded details and more inconsistencies. In one prior study, children who experienced a play event four times were rated by mock jurors as less accurate and less believable than children who experienced it once, although there was no difference in their actual accuracy (Connolly, Price, Lavoie, & Gordon, 2008). In the present study, 405 undergraduate students read one of four scenarios of a child sexual abuse allegation in a 2 (age: 4- or 10-yearsold) by 2 (experience: single or multiple) factorial design. Overall, regardless of age, participants rated the child alleging repeated abuse as significantly less believable, honest, cognitively competent, and consistent than the child alleging a single abuse occurrence. Jurors may need education about the effects of repeated experience on children’s accounts of abuse in order to reach appropriate decisions. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationKulisek, Natalie Ryan. (2014). Effects of child age and type of detail reported on credibility of child abuse allegations. (MS thesis), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=theses
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4771
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanoogaen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectdisclosureen_US
dc.subjectcreden_US
dc.subjectrevictimizationen_US
dc.subjectageen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectbelievabilityen_US
dc.titleEffects of child age and type of detail reported on credibility of child abuse allegationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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