Explaining Variance in Children’s Recall of a Stressful Experience: Influence of Cognitive and Emotional Individual Differences

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examined the effects of various individual differences on children’s memory of a stressful experience. The participants for the current study were children (N=85) aged 4-9 years those who experienced a naturally occurring stressful experience from a dental procedure. There was overall negative relation between the level of stress and children’s memory performance. However, more interestingly, the results of this study provided some further evidence that several cognitive (i.e., receptive language ability and working memory capacity) and emotional (i.e., children's general anxiety condition, children’s self-report of pain and anxiety about the event) individual difference factors were associated with variations in children’s remembering across ages. The results suggest that the relation between stress and children’s memory might be impacted in part by children’s various individual characteristics. Furthermore, the findings are discussed in the applied context that based on the results clinical and legal professionals can tailor interviews to best meet children’s needs and capabilities, and create developmentally and individually sensitive guidelines for interviewing children in the legal system.

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