Relationship of Corporal Punishment and Antisocial Behavior by Neighborhood

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Summary: The objective of this research is to examine the relationship of corporal punishment with children’s behavior problems while accounting for neighborhood context, and while using stronger statistical methods than previous literature in this area. To examine whether different levels of corporal punishment have different effects in different neighborhood contexts.

Design: Longitudinal cohort study

Setting: General Community

Participants: 1,943 mother child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

Main Outcome Measure(s): Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problem Scales of the Behavior Problems Index

Results, and Conclusions: Parental use of corporal punishment was associated with a .71 increase (p<.05) in children’s externalizing behavior problems even when several parenting behaviors, neighborhood quality, and all time invariant variables were accounted for. The association of corporal punishment and children’s externalizing behavior problems was not dependent on neighborhood context.  The research found no discernible relationship between corporal punishment and internalizing behavior problems.

Owner: Grogan-Kaylor, A.

Organisation: 
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Web: 
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~agrogan/
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