{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.024644549763033177, 'fraction_numerical': 0.005687203791469194, 'mean_word_length': 5.211764705882353, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Transmission of children’s disclosures of a transgression from peers to adults

Abstract Peers are common recipients of disclosures about negative events, but the transmission of peer disclosures to adults is not well understood. We explored children’s (N = 352; aged 6–11 years) disclosures of a negative event to peer and adult interviewers. Some children witnessed an adult transgression and were asked to keep the transgression a secret (witnesses). Some of these witnesses (peer-interviewed witnesses) were then interviewed by peer who had not witnessed the event (peer interviewers) and then by an adult. The remainder of the witnesses (control) were only interviewed by an adult. Peer interviewers who received a disclosure were likely to share the disclosure with an adult and were significantly more likely to do so than children in either witness condition. Although the probability of disclosure transmission likely depends on context, this study provides the first evidence of peer recipients’ willingness to disclose to adults at a high rate.