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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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Autores principales: Lansford, Jennifer E., Alampay, Liane Peña, Al-Hassan, Suha, Bacchini, Dario, Bombi, Anna Silvia, Bornstein, Marc H., Chang, Lei, Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Di Giunta, Laura, Dodge, Kenneth A., Oburu, Paul, Pastorelli, Concetta, Runyan, Desmond K., Skinner, Ann T., Sorbring, Emma, Tapanya, Sombat, Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe, Zelli, Arnaldo
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20976255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/672780
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author Lansford, Jennifer E.
Alampay, Liane Peña
Al-Hassan, Suha
Bacchini, Dario
Bombi, Anna Silvia
Bornstein, Marc H.
Chang, Lei
Deater-Deckard, Kirby
Di Giunta, Laura
Dodge, Kenneth A.
Oburu, Paul
Pastorelli, Concetta
Runyan, Desmond K.
Skinner, Ann T.
Sorbring, Emma
Tapanya, Sombat
Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe
Zelli, Arnaldo
author_facet Lansford, Jennifer E.
Alampay, Liane Peña
Al-Hassan, Suha
Bacchini, Dario
Bombi, Anna Silvia
Bornstein, Marc H.
Chang, Lei
Deater-Deckard, Kirby
Di Giunta, Laura
Dodge, Kenneth A.
Oburu, Paul
Pastorelli, Concetta
Runyan, Desmond K.
Skinner, Ann T.
Sorbring, Emma
Tapanya, Sombat
Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe
Zelli, Arnaldo
author_sort Lansford, Jennifer E.
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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 pubmed-29528962010-10-25 Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender Lansford, Jennifer E. Alampay, Liane Peña Al-Hassan, Suha Bacchini, Dario Bombi, Anna Silvia Bornstein, Marc H. Chang, Lei Deater-Deckard, Kirby Di Giunta, Laura Dodge, Kenneth A. Oburu, Paul Pastorelli, Concetta Runyan, Desmond K. Skinner, Ann T. Sorbring, Emma Tapanya, Sombat Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe Zelli, Arnaldo Int J Pediatr Research Article 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2952896/ /pubmed/20976255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/672780 Text en Copyright © 2010 Jennifer E. Lansford et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lansford, Jennifer E.
Alampay, Liane Peña
Al-Hassan, Suha
Bacchini, Dario
Bombi, Anna Silvia
Bornstein, Marc H.
Chang, Lei
Deater-Deckard, Kirby
Di Giunta, Laura
Dodge, Kenneth A.
Oburu, Paul
Pastorelli, Concetta
Runyan, Desmond K.
Skinner, Ann T.
Sorbring, Emma
Tapanya, Sombat
Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe
Zelli, Arnaldo
Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender
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title_fullStr Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender
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topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20976255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/672780
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