THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE, MEMORY AND INTERROGATIVE SUGGESTIBILITY IN YOUNG OFFENDERS

The study investigated the relationship between interrogative suggesti bility and relevant cognitive factors as proposed by Gudjonsson and Cl ark (1986). The subjects were fifty-eight adolescent young offenders r esident in a national children's centre with secure facilities. All we re administered the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale and the Wechsler I ntelligence Scale for Children. interrogative suggestibility correlate d negatively with intelligence and recall memory. Limited evidence of range effects was found for the relationship between intelligence and suggestibility, but not for the relationship between recall memory and suggestibility.