Abstract

This paper is aimed to offer a comprehensive overview of research on children’s source monitoring (SM), exploring significant factors known to impact children’s SM focused on the context of children’s testimony. The discussion was mainly presented the results of applied and experimental studies of children’s SM. The ultimate goal of this review is to build a beneficial synthesis of currently available and relevant information concerning children’s SM process and ability, thereby producing a reliable and concise interpretation that classifies important areas for potential future research of children’s testimony. Various factors may influence children’s SM; however, this overview was concentrated on, in particular, critical characteristics of the sources, the source judgment processes, and the individual differences within the context of children’s testimony. The experimental research and implied conclusions criticized herein proposed a groundwork and theoretical perspective for potential state-of-the-art empirical studies in this research field. It is hopeful that these imperative and extensive knowledge can be incorporated into practical legal settings in children’s lives and well-being.