Variations in the Acceptance of Parental Corporal Punishment of Children: What Matters?

Abstract

This article tries to identify people’s degree of acceptance of parental corporal punishment (CP) of children and the nature of the association of different variables, particularly the value variables with such acceptance. For this purpose, the study uses data from the World Values Survey 6 (2010-2014), which is a large survey of attitudes based on representative samples from 60 different countries (around 1,200 respondents from each). This study tested five hypotheses and two subhypotheses on individuals’ acceptance of parental CP: effects of emancipative values (aspiration to autonomy and freedom), nonmasculine values, religiousness, people’s dissatisfaction with life in general, and more specifically, dissatisfaction with financial and health conditions and national bans on CP. The findings show that the higher level presence of emancipative values and nonmasculine values are associated with lower support for CP. The study also finds that a number of sociodemographic variables affect the endorsement of CP; on the one hand, people with higher age and lower social classes (subjective) tend to express less support for CP, whereas on the other, people with no partners (divorced/separated/widowed/single) and men tend to express higher support for the use of parental CP. The identification of these associations can help us to develop more effective policies to address the problem of CP.

Predicting Black Parents’ Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Frequency and Valence of Childhood Experiences

“…Research has established influential factors affecting efficacy perceptions and attitudes in the CP context, including psychological stress (Bandura, 1977;Holden et al, 2014;Straus, 2001), perceived racism (Thomas & Dettlaff, 2011), and religiosity (Wolf & Kepple, 2019). Parents' gender, age, race, education, religious affiliation, and household income, child aggressive behavior, child's gender and age were also found to affect parents' consideration of using CP (Baniamin, 2022;Gagné et al, 2007;Gershoff et al, 2017;Mehlhausen-Hassoen, 2021). Thus, these variables were measured as covariates.…”

Communicating nonviolence messages: Effects of racial cues and message format on Black parents’ message credibility perceptions and behavioral change.

“…The measures of these covariates are reported in Supplemental Table 1. Additionally, parents' gender, age, race, education, religious affiliation, parenting situation, household income, child aggressive behavior, child's gender, child's age, and number of children currently living with parents were also found to affect parents' use of CP (Baniamin, 2022;Gagné et al, 2007;Gershoff et al, 2017;Mehlhausen-Hassoen, 2021).…”

Kecerdasan Emosi pada Siswa yang Orangtuanya Bercerai dan Tidak Bercerai (Utuh)

“…Hal tersebut berdampak positif terhadap persepsi remaja mengenai orangtuanya serta pada kecerdasan emosinya, seperti mampu mengendalikan emosi saat menghadapi suatu masalah atau kesulitan. Sehingga individu cenderung mengembangkan masa kanak-kanak hingga remaja dengan positif (Baniamin, 2022;den Eynde, 2019;Dilmaghani, 2022;Krasniqi, 2023;Scott, 2020;Turbide, 2019;Yosep, 2022).…”