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The usefulness of assessing suggestibility and compliance in prisoners with unidentified intellectual disabilities
Author(s) -
SØNDENAA ERIK,
RASMUSSEN KIRSTEN,
PALMSTIERNA TOM,
NØTTESTAD JIM AAGE
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00811.x
Subject(s) - suggestibility , psychology , prison , norwegian , compliance (psychology) , borderline intellectual functioning , intellectual disability , interrogative , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , social psychology , criminology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Søndenaa, E., Rasmussen, K., Palmstierna, T. & Nøttestad, J. A. (2010). The usefulness of assessing suggestibility and compliance in prisoners with unidentified intellectual disabilities. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 51 , 434–438. This present study explored the relationship of interrogative suggestibility ( n = 133) and compliance ( n = 118) to intellectual functioning among prison inmates. The Norwegian versions of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS) and the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS) were used. The results supported previous findings of a negative correlation between the Gudjonsson scales and IQ, and the scales were found useful throughout the IQ range. The impact of a memory artifact was discussed in the light of recent studies and criticism of the scales.