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Suggestibility Scale for Primary School Children in Korea

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2011, v.25 no.1, pp.57-75
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2011.25.1.004



Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a Suggestibility Scale for Primary School Children in Korea(SS-PSCK) by modifying the procedure and the content of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale(Gudjonsson, 1984, 1987), and to test the convergent validity of the scale. The modification of the measurement procedure included a new procedure implemented to minimize the effect of the strength of memory trace on the suggestibility score. The modification of the scale content involved replacing the Shift subscale, which has been known to be unreliable, with misinformation questions to measure misinformation effect which is one of the most important phenomena suggestive of suggestibility. 57 primary school children were measured with the new scale. And those who obtained high suggestibility scores and low suggestibility scores participated in the experiment designed to test the convergent validity of the scale. The internal consistency reliability(KR20) of the SS-PSCK was 0.76. In the validity experiment, the high suggestibility group made more errors in answering suggestive questions than did the low suggestibility group. The results were discussed for theoretical implications for the construct of suggestibility and practical implications for the investigations of crimes either committed against or witnessed by children.

keywords
피암시성, 아동기, 기억, 취학 연령, GSS, suggestibility, childhood, memory, school age, GSS

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