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    Family Characteristics as the Moderators of the Relationship Between Late Adolescents’ Psychological Constructs and Interrogative Suggestibility in Bahir Dar City Administration
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-03) Darge, Reda; Meshesha, Ayele (PhD)
    This study examined the role that family characteristics play on the relationship between late adolescents’ psychological constructs and interrogative suggestibility. The research design employed to conduct this study was Quasi-experimental Single-Group Interrupted Time-Series Design. The ‘individual differences approach’ in eyewitness suggestibility developed by Gudjonsson was adapted to use as a conceptual framework in this study. The Video Suggestibility Scale (VSS) was adapted to gather data about suggestibility as dependent variable and where VSS text and questions are regarded as independent variables. To assess individual differences in eyewitness suggestibility in relation to their family characteristics and psychological constructs a total of 135 Bahir Dar preparatory school students aged between 18- 21 years from Bahir Dar city administration, North-West of Ethiopia, were shown a 2 1⁄2-minute video-recorded story about a man robbed of his money. Background information questionnaire was utilized to gather data about the family characteristics, while scales were administered to collect data on psychological constructs and interrogative suggestibility variables. Analysis involving mainly hierarchical regression revealed that parenting style demonstrated moderating effects on the relationships between extraversion, conscientiousness, locus of control, memory accuracy and suggestibility variables in a late adolescent group. Parenting style was a significant predictor of suggestibility and shift, rather than moderating the effect of openness to experience, neuroticism, and agreeableness on suggestibility and shift. On the other hand, parent’s educational level was neither a predictor nor a moderator variable in explaining the relationship between personality traits and suggestibility variables. The hierarchical regression analysis further indicated that parent’s educational level was merely found to moderate relations between social desirability, sense of control and interrogative suggestibility variables. The importance of the results, particularly in relation to the moderating role of family characteristics in explaining relations between psychological constructs and interrogative suggestibility variables, and the kinds of family characteristics that help to understand the influence of psychological constructs on interrogative suggestibility variables are discussed in light of the literature