2004, Vol.17, No.1

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.67

pISSN : 1229-0718 / eISSN : 2671-6542
https://journal.kci.go.kr/baldal

This study aimed to investigate the differences in the touch patterns to the mother's internal states. 960 mothers of babies aged from 3 to 36 months old were involved. The differences of touch patterns to mother's depression, maternal attitude scale, and parenting stress index, were analysed. According to the results, there are no differences in the touch dimensions to mother's depression. Regardless of the depression, mothers used more nurturing touch than harsh touch. However, more severely depressive mothers used the kissing and the stroking of the nurturing touch than mild depressive mothers. Regarding to the mother's attitude and the parenting stress of their infants, more nurturing touch was used than harsh touch. Moreover, mothers with low parenting stress index used many harsh touch patterns than those with high parenting stress index(especially, they used lifting). In general, although Korean mothers are internally uncomfortable, they affectionately touched their infants. This could be explained with korean culture in which mothers do not usually express their internal uncomfortableness.

The goal of the present study is to examine the effect of Modeling Cognitive Interview to improve the accuracy of children's event memory recall. Cognitive interview is a memory retrieval procedure based on laboratory principles of cognitive psychology. To improve younger children's recall, a modeling procedure added before cognitive interview, and ‘change perspective’(a retrieval technique in the cognitive interview) is excluded. After 215 of 4- and 6-year-old children had a “stranger’s visit”, modeling cognitive interview or standard interview were conducted with regard to the stranger's visit. In general, 6-year-old children generated significantly better correct information than 4-year-old group. With modeling cognitive interview, both age group produced greater accuracy with regard to correct informations (up to 85% in accuracy), and generated less incorrect information. The results imply that modeling cognitive interview improves the accuracy of younger children's recall and reduces incorrect responses. In short, the accuracy of children of 4- and 6-year-old children's event memory recall is about 76∼85%, and modeling cognitive interview enhances younger children's event memory recall. The usefulness of the modeling cognitive interview with young children, especially in forensic setting, is discussed in the end.

The purpose of this study was to investigate narrative abilities of korean children with SLI(Specific Language Impairment) and children with normal language developing. Thirty children participated in the study, fifteen 5 to 6 year-old children with SLI and fifteen normally developing children. Three story tasks, story generation, story retelling, and story comprehension, were given to each participant in order. The amount of story generation and recall, the frequency of story grammar components, the amount of inferential propositions and story comprehension were analyzed. The results of the present study were as follows. Firstly, the children with SLI produced fewer proposition of the stories during story generation and retelling than the children with normal language. Secondly, the children with normal language produced significantly more proposition in their retelling of stories than they did in the generation of stories. In contrast, there were no differences in the performance between the two tasks for children with SLI. Thirdly, lower frequency of use of story grammar components by the SLI group compared to the normal language group is a pattern to be consistent in both story generation and retelling. However, the two group's relative pattern of use of the story grammar components were identical. Overall, setting was produced foremost, then consequence and initiating event were moderately produced. Attempt and internal response were poorly produced across groups and tasks. The results were discussed relative to the SLI group's poor memory, syntactic comprehension, and ability to use story grammar knowledge.