Child Maltreatment and Honesty

虐待儿童和诚实

• 批准号: 7692131
• 负责人: THOMAS D LYON
• 金额: $ 4.64万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7692131
• 关键词: 7 year old; Adult; Affect; Age; Attitude; Behavior; Belief; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Characteristics; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Development; Child Psychology; Cognitive; Collaborations; Competence; Conceptions; Deception; Decision Making; Depth; Detection; Development; Developmental Delay Disorders; Disclosure; Discrimination; Emotional; Ensure; Evaluation; Exhibits; Face; Family; Forensic Medicine; Income; Intervention; Interview; Interviewer; Investigation; Knowledge; Laws; Lead; Legal; Legal system; Lie Detection; Linguistics; Low income; Measures; Methods; Moral Development; Participant; Performance; Psychology; Rate; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Sampling; Series; Social Workers; Testing; Videotape; Work; adjudication; base; concept; ethnic minority population; expectation; experience; improved; indexing; maltreated children; maltreatment; programs; social; tool; university student

A team of researchers with expertise in developmental psychology, child and family law, and forensic psychology propose a series of studies to examine honesty in young maltreated and non-maltreated children. The proposal consists four interconnected projects. The first project will examine the development of children's understanding of concepts underlying honesty, including early conceptions of the distinction between the truth and lies, the evaluation of secret-keeping regarding transgressions, and the evaluation of the obligations underlying promises. The second project will examine the determinants of honesty, varying the actions of instigators who may encourage dishonesty and recipient-interviewers who encourage honesty, and assessing characteristics of the child that may have an influence, including maltreatment status, age, and attitudes about honesty. The third project will examine the verbal and nonverbal indices of honesty in children who were coached to lie by instigators or encouraged to be truthful by recipients. The fourth project will examine whether either lay or professional adults are able to distinguish honest from dishonest children. The research will test hypotheses that maltreated children's understanding is subject to underestimation due to insensitive tasks, that maltreated children's honesty can be increased through various means of truth induction, and that maltreated children's honesty can be discriminated through multidimensional analysis of verbal and nonverbal measures. The research is unique in its potential application to the investigation and adjudication of child maltreatment claims, insofar as it is the first sustained research program to uitilize tools for assessing and influencing honesty that are potentially useful to child maltreatment professionals and to examine the utility of those tools in children who are in fact the subject of intervention. The findings have potential to improve child maltreatment practice and thus to ensure that children who do in fact need protection from maltreatment are detected and their reports believed.

拥有发展心理学、儿童和家庭法以及法医学专业知识的研究人员团队 心理学提出了一系列研究来检验遭受虐待和未受虐待的年轻人的诚实度 孩子们。该提案由四个相互关联的项目组成。第一个项目将检查开发 儿童对诚实概念的理解，包括早期对诚实的区别的概念 真相与谎言之间、对违法行为的保密评价以及对 承诺背后的义务。第二个项目将研究诚实的决定因素，不同的因素 可能鼓励不诚实的煽动者和鼓励诚实的接受采访者的行为， 评估可能有影响的儿童特征，包括虐待状况、年龄、 以及关于诚实的态度。第三个项目将检查言语和非言语的诚实指数 被煽动者教导说谎或被接受者鼓励说实话的儿童。第四个项目 将检查外行或专业成年人是否能够区分诚实和不诚实的孩子。 该研究将检验以下假设：受虐待儿童的理解力因 对于不敏感的任务，可以通过各种真相手段来提高受虐待儿童的诚实度 归纳起来，可以通过多维分析来辨别受虐儿童的诚实程度。 言语和非言语措施。该研究的独特之处在于其在调查和研究中的潜在应用 对儿童虐待索赔的裁决，因为这是第一个利用工具的持续研究计划 评估和影响诚实，这对儿童虐待专业人员可能有用，并 检查这些工具对实际上是干预对象的儿童的效用。研究结果有 改善虐待儿童做法的潜力，从而确保确实需要的儿童 发现了免受虐待的保护，并且他们的报告得到了相信。