There is general absence of research about the relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused. The participants were 134 children aged between 7 and 17 years with a history of reported sexual abuse. All children completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2), a non‐verbal IQ test, and The University of California at Los Angeles Child/Adolescent Reaction Index for post‐traumatic stress (UCLA‐PTSD‐RI‐5). Delayed suggestibility was measured after a 1 week delay. A Hierarchical Regression showed that trauma symptoms accounted overall for 43.4% of the variance in delayed suggestibility after controlling for age, sex, IQ, and immediate recall (a large effect size). There was a small shared variance between trauma and immediate suggestibility (low effect size). The findings strongly suggest that the severity of trauma symptoms impact more on delayed than immediate suggestibility. The theoretical and forensic implications are discussed.

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性虐待儿童的创伤症状与立即和延迟暗示之间的关系

对于遭受性虐待的儿童，创伤症状与立即性和延迟性暗示之间的关系普遍缺乏研究。参与者是134名7-17岁的儿童，他们曾有过性虐待的报道。所有儿童均完成了Gudjonsson提示性量表（2），一项非语言智商测验以及加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校儿童创伤后应激反应指数（UCLA-PTSD-RI-5）。延迟提示时间是在延迟1周后进行的。分层回归显示，在控制了年龄，性别，智商和即刻回忆（较大影响范围）后，创伤症状占延迟暗示性差异的43.4％。创伤与立即提示之间的差异较小（影响大小较小）。这些发现强烈表明，创伤症状的严重程度对延迟的影响比立即提示的影响更大。讨论了理论和法证含义。