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The Effects of Interviewer’s Rapport-building Style, Duration, Children’s General Anxiety Level, and Ages upon Event Memory

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이승진,곽금주

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pp. 133~157 / 2014 Vol.21 No.2

Abstract

Two external factors and one internal factor were explored in association with children’s responses togeneral probes about their previous experiences. Particularly, this study sought to test to what extent (a)the questioning style and length in the rapport-building session and (b) the level of children’s generalanxiety were linked with the accuracy of children’s recall across ages. A total of 148 children aged from4 to 9 years interacted with researcher during an event and were interviewed about the target event byanother researcher. The results suggested that more accurate information in the child’s voluntary responseswas associated with an open style rapport-building condition regardless of the children’s ages. Moreinterestingly, the accuracy of children’s free recall differed as a function of a length of the rapport-buildingand the level of children’s general anxiety level; that is, children who were evaluated as comparativelymore anxious than other children who were evaluated as rather less anxious recalled information in greaterdetail in a long rapport-building condition. Ultimately, this study identified a number of significantvariables affecting how children report an experience and especially, the findings are marked for moreanxious children in general who are in special need of support and for whom a long and open stylerapport-building with the interviewer might be more important.

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