Corporal Punishment: Current Rates from a National Survey

Finkelhor, David; Turner, Heather A.; Wormuth, Brittany Kaye; Vanderminden, Jennifer; Hamby, Sherry

doi:10.1007/s10826-019-01426-4

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“…Mothers may also be susceptible to social desirability bias given their awareness of negative social views toward aggressive actions such as hitting and shouting. Along with previously mentioned research finding White parents to be less likely to endorse spanking, Finkelhor et al (2019) further found spanking to be less common among parents who are college graduates and have fewer children. Further research indicates that higher income mothers are also less likely to endorse spanking (Ryan, Kalil, Ziol-Guest, & Padilla, 2016).…”

Section: Differences By Maternal and Household Characteristicssupporting

confidence: 57%

“…At this age, children would be old enough to be aware of norms surrounding maternal aggression, making them susceptible to social desirability bias. Recent research has found spanking to be less common among White parents than African Americans (Finkelhor, Turner, Wormuth, Vanderminden, & Hamby, 2019), which may make children who are White to be less likely to report maternal aggression. This is supported by McKinney, Harris, and Caetano's research (2009), in which they surveyed the same group of adults in 1995 and 2000 regarding their childhood experiences of physical abuse.…”

Section: Differences By Child Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Discordance in Reporting of Maternal Aggression: Exploring Differences by Characteristics of Children, Mothers, and Their Environments

2019

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This study investigated discordant reports of maternal aggression using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study ( N = 1,606). Multinomial logistic regression models predicted discordant reports of hitting and shouting from child, mother, and environmental characteristics. Compared to dyads in which both mothers and children reported aggression, mothers with a college degree had higher child-only and mother-only reports of both hitting and shouting versus mothers with less than a high school diploma. High-income mothers had higher child-only reports of hitting, while families with past Child Protective Services involvement had higher child-only and mother-only reports of hitting. Additionally, children with lower reading test scores and whose fathers had history of incarceration had higher child-only reports of hitting. Families residing in neighborhoods for which mothers were scared to let children play outside also had higher child-only and mother-only reports of hitting and shouting.

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Section: Differences By Maternal and Household Characteristicssupporting

confidence: 57%

Section: Differences By Child Characteristicsmentioning

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Discordance in Reporting of Maternal Aggression: Exploring Differences by Characteristics of Children, Mothers, and Their Environments

2019

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“…In contrast to physical abuse, physical punishment of children is still acceptable in many countries and not generally considered as an adverse childhood experience [74]. Whereas such practice has not been persistently confronted by legal reform and/or public education, the few existing prevalence studies suggest that it remains common [75][76][77].…”

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The Impact of Different Types of Abuse on Depression

Radell

Hamza

Daghustani

et al. 2021

Depression Research and Treatment

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Despite a large amount of research on depression and abuse, there is still a controversy on how abuse is measured and on childhood trauma’s effect on the physiological function of adults. Here, we attempt to clarify the relationship between different types of abuse and depression while focusing on childhood abuse. This article, unlike prior research, provides an overview that addresses physical, psychological, and sexual abuse and their psychological impact on the victims. Results show that abuse is a vulnerability factor for a variety of mental and physical health problems and that psychological abuse is strongly associated with depression. More research is needed to understand (a) the role of abuse in the development and maintenance of depression and, in particular, longitudinal studies that also account for the large number of risk and protective factors that influence this relationship and (b) how different types of abuse can influence response to treatment among survivors with depression, in order to provide effective trauma-focused approaches to manage depressive symptoms.

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“…In 2014, approximately 65% of children ages 2 to 4 were spanked, a decline of only 11% from 1995 when approximately 76% of children ages 2 to 4 were spanked. 9 Many parents continue to use physical punishment for a variety of reasons, for example, believing that, in the context of an otherwise loving parent-child relationship, physical punishment is unlikely to be harmful to children. 10 These "conditional corporal punishment" arguments are based on the premise that there are potential moderators of the relationship between physical punishment and negative child outcomes, in that certain conditions or contexts may mitigate the negative consequences of physical punishment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Attachment Style and the Association of Spanking and Child Externalizing Behavior

Ward

Lee

Pace

et al. 2020

Academic Pediatrics

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OBJECTIVE:To examine whether the longitudinal associations between maternal spanking and child externalizing behavior are moderated by attachment style. METHODS:This study used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 2211), a large cohort sample of low-income urban families. Multiple-group autoregressive cross-lagged models examined the associations between maternal spanking and child externalizing behavior when children were ages 1, 3, and 5. Moderation by attachment style was examined using structural invariance testing. RESULTS:For children with an insecure mother-child attachment style, spanking at age 1 was associated with externalizing behavior at age 3. However, for children with a secure motherchild attachment style, the association between maternal spanking at age 1 and child externalizing behavior at age 3 was absent. Attachment style did not moderate the association between maternal spanking at age 3 and externalizing behavior at age 5, suggesting that spanking at age 3 is associated with deleterious outcomes at age 5, regardless of attachment style. CONCLUSIONS:Results suggest that even in the context of a secure attachment style, spanking is associated with adverse outcomes in early childhood. Findings support the American Academy of Pediatrics 2018 policy statement, which encourages parents to avoid spanking when disciplining children. Results suggest that children, regardless of attachment style, may benefit from policies and services that promote non-violent forms of discipline.

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Corporal Punishment: Current Rates from a National Survey

Cited by 85 publications

References 31 publications

Discordance in Reporting of Maternal Aggression: Exploring Differences by Characteristics of Children, Mothers, and Their Environments

Discordance in Reporting of Maternal Aggression: Exploring Differences by Characteristics of Children, Mothers, and Their Environments

The Impact of Different Types of Abuse on Depression

Attachment Style and the Association of Spanking and Child Externalizing Behavior

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