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.

一支具有发展心理学，儿童和家庭法和法医学专业知识的研究人员 心理学提出了一系列研究，以检查年轻虐待和未虐待的诚实 孩子们。该提案组成了四个相互联系的项目。第一个项目将检查开发 儿童对诚实基础概念的理解，包括早期的概念 在真理和谎言之间，对违法行为的秘密保存评估以及评估 承诺的义务。第二个项目将检查诚实的决定因素，不同 煽动者的行动可能鼓励不诚实和接受诚实的接受者探视者 并评估可能有影响的孩子的特征，包括虐待状况，年龄， 和关于诚实的态度。第三个项目将研究诚实的口头和非语言指标 曾经被煽动者撒谎或鼓励接收者诚实的孩子。第四个项目 将检查外行还是专业成年人是否能够将诚实与不诚实的孩子区分开。 该研究将检验假设，虐待儿童的理解可能会被低估 为了无敏感的任务，虐待儿童的诚实可以通过各种真理手段增加 归纳和虐待儿童的诚实可以通过多维分析来歧视 口头和非语言措施。这项研究在调查中的潜在应用中是独一无二的 对儿童虐待主张的裁决，就它是第一个持续的研究计划，以启用工具 评估和影响对儿童虐待专业人员有用的诚实和影响 检查这些工具在实际上是干预主题的儿童中的效用。发现有 有潜力改善儿童虐待练习，从而确保实际上需要的孩子需要 检测到虐待的保护，并认为他们的报告。