Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender
Background. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers' and fathers' use of corporal punishment with daughters and sons in nine countries. Methods. Interviews were conducted with 1398 mothers, 1146 fath...
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| author | Jennifer E. Lansford Liane Peña Alampay Suha Al-Hassan Dario Bacchini Anna Silvia Bombi Marc H. Bornstein Lei Chang Kirby Deater-Deckard Laura Di Giunta Kenneth A. Dodge Paul Oburu Concetta Pastorelli Desmond K. Runyan Ann T. Skinner Emma Sorbring Sombat Tapanya Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado Arnaldo Zelli |
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| description | Background. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers' and fathers' use of corporal punishment with daughters and sons in nine countries. Methods. Interviews were conducted with 1398 mothers, 1146 fathers, and 1417 children (age range =7 to 10 years) in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. Results. Across the entire sample, 54% of girls and 58% of boys had experienced mild corporal punishment, and 13% of girls and 14% of boys had experienced severe corporal punishment by their parents or someone in their household in the last month. Seventeen percent of parents believed that the use of corporal punishment was necessary to rear the target child. Overall, boys were more frequently punished corporally than were girls, and mothers used corporal punishment more frequently than did fathers. There were significant differences across countries, with reports of corporal punishment use lowest in Sweden and highest in Kenya. Conclusion. This work establishes that the use of corporal punishment is widespread, and efforts to prevent corporal punishment from escalating into physical abuse should be commensurately widespread. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b7a18ed5a4264e95879bc2251b7382ad2025-02-03T01:10:51ZengWileyInternational Journal of Pediatrics1687-97401687-97592010-01-01201010.1155/2010/672780672780Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent GenderJennifer E. Lansford0Liane Peña Alampay1Suha Al-Hassan2Dario Bacchini3Anna Silvia Bombi4Marc H. Bornstein5Lei Chang6Kirby Deater-Deckard7Laura Di Giunta8Kenneth A. Dodge9Paul Oburu10Concetta Pastorelli11Desmond K. Runyan12Ann T. Skinner13Emma Sorbring14Sombat Tapanya15Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado16Arnaldo Zelli17Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USADepartment of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City 1108, PhilippinesQueen Rania Faculty for Childhood, The Hashemite University, Zarqa 13115, JordanDepartment of Psychology, Second University of Naples, 81100 Caserta, ItalyFaculty of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, ItalyChild and Family Research Program in Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USADepartment of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong KongDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USAFaculty of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, ItalyCenter for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USADepartment of Educational Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno 40105, KenyaFaculty of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USACenter for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USADepartment of Psychology, University West, 46186 Trollhätten, SwedenDepartment of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, ThailandFaculty of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, ItalyDeptartment of Education Sciences, “Foro Italico”, University of Rome, 00135 Rome, ItalyBackground. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers' and fathers' use of corporal punishment with daughters and sons in nine countries. Methods. Interviews were conducted with 1398 mothers, 1146 fathers, and 1417 children (age range =7 to 10 years) in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. Results. Across the entire sample, 54% of girls and 58% of boys had experienced mild corporal punishment, and 13% of girls and 14% of boys had experienced severe corporal punishment by their parents or someone in their household in the last month. Seventeen percent of parents believed that the use of corporal punishment was necessary to rear the target child. Overall, boys were more frequently punished corporally than were girls, and mothers used corporal punishment more frequently than did fathers. There were significant differences across countries, with reports of corporal punishment use lowest in Sweden and highest in Kenya. Conclusion. This work establishes that the use of corporal punishment is widespread, and efforts to prevent corporal punishment from escalating into physical abuse should be commensurately widespread.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/672780 |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer E. Lansford Liane Peña Alampay Suha Al-Hassan Dario Bacchini Anna Silvia Bombi Marc H. Bornstein Lei Chang Kirby Deater-Deckard Laura Di Giunta Kenneth A. Dodge Paul Oburu Concetta Pastorelli Desmond K. Runyan Ann T. Skinner Emma Sorbring Sombat Tapanya Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado Arnaldo Zelli Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender International Journal of Pediatrics |
| title | Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender |
| title_full | Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender |
| title_fullStr | Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender |
| title_full_unstemmed | Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender |
| title_short | Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender |
| title_sort | corporal punishment of children in nine countries as a function of child gender and parent gender |
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