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Individual differences in suggestibility: examining the influence of dissociation, absorption, and a history of childhood abuse
Author(s) -
Eisen Mitchell L.,
Carlson Eve B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199812)12:7<s47::aid-acp598>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - suggestibility , dissociative experiences scale , psychology , dissociation (chemistry) , dissociative , developmental psychology , attribution , child abuse , clinical psychology , poison control , cognition , social psychology , psychiatry , injury prevention , chemistry , medicine , medical emergency , schizotypy
This study examined how individual differences in dissociation, absorption and a history of abuse are related to memory and suggestibility for the details of a personally experienced, known event. One hundred and thirty college students took part in a staged event and completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS), and questions about each participant's history of childhood abuse. One week after the staged event and initial testing, the students were questioned about the event. Dissociation and absorption were significantly related to errors on misleading questions but unrelated to errors on specific (non‐misleading) questions. Reports of a history of child abuse were also related to dissociation and absorption but were generally unrelated to event memory or resistance to misleading information. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.