Family Characteristics As The Moderators Of The Relationship Between Late Adolescents Psychological Constructs And Interrogative Suggestibility In Bahir Dar City Administration

This study examined the role that family characteristics play on the relationship between laternadolescents’ psychological constructs and interrogative suggestibility. The research designrnemployed to conduct this study was Quasi-experimental Single-Group Interrupted Time-SeriesrnDesign. The ‘individual differences approach’ in eyewitness suggestibility developed byrnGudjonsson was adapted to use as a conceptual framework in this study. The VideornSuggestibility Scale (VSS) was adapted to gather data about suggestibility as dependent variablernand where VSS text and questions are regarded as independent variables. To assess individualrndifferences in eyewitness suggestibility in relation to their family characteristics andrnpsychological constructs a total of 135 Bahir Dar preparatory school students aged between 18-rn21 years from Bahir Dar city administration, North-West of Ethiopia, were shown a 2 1⁄2-minuternvideo-recorded story about a man robbed of his money. Background information questionnairernwas utilized to gather data about the family characteristics, while scales were administered torncollect data on psychological constructs and interrogative suggestibility variables. Analysisrninvolving mainly hierarchical regression revealed that parenting style demonstrated moderatingrneffects on the relationships between extraversion, conscientiousness, locus of control, memoryrnaccuracy and suggestibility variables in a late adolescent group. Parenting style was arnsignificant predictor of suggestibility and shift, rather than moderating the effect of openness tornexperience, neuroticism, and agreeableness on suggestibility and shift. On the other hand,rnparent’s educational level was neither a predictor nor a moderator variable in explaining thernrelationship between personality traits and suggestibility variables. The hierarchical regressionrnanalysis further indicated that parent’s educational level was merely found to moderate relationsrnbetween social desirability, sense of control and interrogative suggestibility variables. Thernimportance of the results, particularly in relation to the moderating role of family characteristicsrnin explaining relations between psychological constructs and interrogative suggestibilityrnvariables, and the kinds of family characteristics that help to understand the influence ofrnpsychological constructs on interrogative suggestibility variables are discussed in light of thernliterature

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