Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (GSS1 and GSS2): Empirical findings

Abstract

In study 1 (n = 51, M age = 21.4 years, SD = 5.7), the validity of the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (Pires, 2011) was shown through the comparison of means of the original (Gudjonsson, 1997) and the translated scales and the analysis of the correlations between the GSS1 and GSS2 scores. The relationships between interrogative suggestibility and the big five were also addressed and the results point to independence between suggestibility and personality, which is in line with Polczyk's findings (2005). Study 2 (n = 87, M age = 48.9 years, SD = 20.7) explored the relationships among interrogative suggestibility, the state-trait anxiety and demographic variables (i.e., age and gender). There were no significant relationships between anxiety and suggestibility. These results are in line with other studies that point to a lack of relationship between suggestibility and anxiety in normal samples (Polczyk, 2005;Wolfradt & Meyer, 1998). As for the relationships between age and interrogative suggestibility, ANCOVA confirmed that the increased suggestibility in old age was not due to age differences but rather to the limited memory capacity of the older adults group. There were no significant gender differences in the GSS1 subscales.

Personality styles and suggestibility: A differential approach

“…This prediction (hypothesis 1) was not confirmed, pointing to independence between suggestibility and psychological maladjustment. These results are in line with aforementioned findings (Leibman et al, 2002;Pires et al, 2013;Polczyk, 2005).…”

“…In a psychiatric sample, Wolfradt and Meyer (1998) also found that suggestibility correlated positively with anxiety. Although these findings support the theoretical model of Gudjonsson and Clark, there are also studies that point to independence between suggestibility and anxiety in normal samples (Pires, Silva, & Ferreira, 2013;Polczyk, 2005).…”

Psychometric Properties of a German Online Version of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 1

“…In a German translation of the GSS 1 (Gubi-Kelm and Schmidt, 2019), women achieved higher immediate recall rates for the details of the GSS story than men. Other GSS 1 studies did not reveal evidence of any significantly different suggestibility scores across gender (Gudjonsson, 1997(Gudjonsson, , 2003Gorassini et al, 2006;Pires et al, 2013). Most previous GSS studies investigated student samples (Gorassini et al, 2006;Reutemann, 2006;vom Schemm et al, 2006;Gubi-Kelm and Schmidt, 2018).…”

“…The interview-based original and standard versions of the GSS have been translated from English into several languages including Icelandic (Haraldsson, 1985), Dutch (Smeets et al, 2009), Polish (Polczyk, 2005), Portuguese (Pires et al, 2013), andGerman (vom Schemm et al, 2006;Gubi-Kelm and Schmidt, 2018) versions of the GSS 1 and Polish (Polczyk, 2005), Japanese (Watanabe et al, 2013), Portuguese (Pires et al, 2013), Italian (Vagni et al, 2015), and German (Wolfradt and Kugener, 1998) versions of the GSS 2. The translated versions have been typically tested in a participant-experimenter interaction in samples smaller than 210 participants.…”

Influência da familiaridade com procedimentos judiciais de interrogatório na sugestionabilidade interrogativa de reclusos reincidentes

“…Gudjonsson (GSS 1). As Escalas de Sugestionabilidade construídas por Gudjonsson (1984aGudjonsson ( , 1997 apenas recentemente foram adaptadas para a população portuguesa (Pires, 2011;Pires, Silva, & Ferreira, 2013). No presente estudo foi aplicada uma versão da GSS 1 adaptada por Capelo, Cruz, Freitas, Furtado, Pinto, Rebelo e Pinho, em 2008, para fins de investigação na Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra.…”