The computer-assisted interview In My Shoes can benefit shy preschool children's communication.

ABSTRACT: Interviewing children is a cognitively, socially, and emotionally challenging situation, especially for young and shy children. Thus, finding methods that aid rapport and increase these children's communication is important. The present study investigated whether children's verbal and non-verbal communicative behavior developed differently during the rapport phase, depending on whether children were situationally shy or not, and whether the interview was conducted using the computer-assisted interview In My Shoes (IMS) or a Standard verbal interview. The sample consisted of 60 children aged 4 to 5-years-old. The results showed that for the shy children in the IMS group their talkativeness increased and their answer latency decreased including the amount of encouragement the child needed to

SUBMITTER: Fangstrom K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5557539 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature