Physical child abuse: A dual-component analysis

Vasta, Ross

doi:10.1016/0273-2297(82)90007-7

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“…Rather, this finding supports the notion that corporal punishment and physical abuse are two points along a continuum, such that if corporal punishment is administered too severely or too frequently, it crosses the line into physical abuse (Garbarino, 1977;Gelles & Straus, 1988;Gil, 1973;Kadushin & Martin, 1981;Straus & Kantor, 1994;Vasta, 1982;Wolfe, 1987;Zigler & Hall, 1989). That abusive parents often recall abusive incidents as beginning with instrumental corporal punishment (Coontz & Martin, 1988;Gil, 1973;Kadushin & Martin, 1981) confirms this connection.…”

Section: Direct Experience: Physical Abusesupporting

confidence: 55%

“…As stated above, child abuse researchers tend to see corporal punishment and physical abuse on a continuum, such that if corporal punishment is administered too severely or too frequently, the outcome can be physical abuse (Garbarino, 1977;Gil, 1973;Vasta, 1982). The notion of a corporal punishment-physical abuse continuum is corroborated in part by physically abusive parents themselves: Parents who had abused their children revealed that as many as two thirds of their abusive incidents began as attempts to change children's behavior or to "teach them a lesson" (Coontz & Martin, 1988;Gil, 1973;Kadushin & Martin, 1981).…”

Section: Becoming a Victim Of Physical Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Holden and Miller (1997) have shown that parents who use corporal punishment in an impulsive manner have low expectations for its use in securing compliance or respect for authority, and Straus and Mouradian (1998) found that such parents rate their children high in antisocial behavior, although their study did not test the possibility that child antisocial behavior elicits more impulsive corporal punishment. The instrumental-impulsive distinction has been used to differentiate discipline from abuse (Vasta, 1982); the question of whether any impulsive corporal punishment can be considered normative and nonabusive awaits further research.…”

Section: Instrumental Versus Impulsivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review.

Gershoff

2002

Psychological Bulletin

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Although the merits of parents using corporal punishment to discipline children have been argued for decades, a thorough understanding of whether and how corporal punishment affects children has not been reached. Toward this end, the author first presents the results of meta-analyses of the association between parental corporal punishment and 11 child behaviors and experiences. Parental corporal punishment was associated with all child constructs, including higher levels of immediate compliance and aggression and lower levels of moral internalization and mental health. The author then presents a process-context model to explain how parental corporal punishment might cause particular child outcomes and considers alternative explanations. The article concludes by identifying 7 major remaining issues for future research.Corporal punishment has been an integral part of how parents discipline their children throughout the history of the United States (Greven, 1991) and has been a focus of psychological research for

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Section: Direct Experience: Physical Abusesupporting

confidence: 55%

Section: Becoming a Victim Of Physical Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Instrumental Versus Impulsivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review.

Gershoff

2002

Psychological Bulletin

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“…A common definition of physical punishment used in the related literature is "the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction or control of the child's behavior" (Straus, 1995, p. 75). There is evidence that the use of physical discipline is linked with a number of negative child behaviors and experiences associated with parental corporal punishment (Gershoff, 2002b) such as aggression (Patterson, 1982;Steinmetz, 1979), mental health problems (Lasky, 1993;Turner & Finkelhor, 1996), and perhaps most concerning, its role in the emergence of child physical abuse and its related morbidity and mortality (Gil, 1979;Kadushin & Martin, 1981;Straus, 1994;Vasta, 1982).…”

Section: Physical Punishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disciplinary Practices With Children: Parental Sources of Information, Attitudes, and Educational Needs

Ateah

2003

Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing

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Although parenting is one of the most important roles undertaken during an individual's lifetime, the amount of information and education that parents receive for this role is variable and often minimal. Parenting behaviors are influenced by a variety of factors and conditions such as knowledge levels, and parenting abilities vary with parents' own childhood experiences, value systems, education levels, and other life experiences. One ongoing parenting issue is the management of and appropriate response to child misbehavior. A review of the topics of discipline and physical punishment are discussed in this article in relation to definitions, practice, and outcomes. A study of parents' attitudes regarding physical punishment and their sources and needs for related parenting education are presented. Findings from this study (N = 170) indicate that parents receive parenting information from a variety of sources, most frequently through discussions with other parents, books on parenting, and their own experiences. The topics identified most frequently by respondents are age-appropriate disciplinary responses and expected child development and behaviors. These areas of information should be made available on a wide basis to parents of young children.

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“…In response to increasing evidence linking physically punitive parenting practices to child developmental problems and psychopathology, there has been a growing interest in the determinants of parenting and child maltreatment (Belsky, 1980(Belsky, , 1984(Belsky, , 1993Cicchetti and Rizley, 1981;Vasta, 1982;Pianta et al, 1989;Holden et al, 1995;Rogosch et al, 1995). Although most early explanations of child abuse emphasized the role of individual (Kempe et al, 1962) and sociological factors (Gelles, 1973;Giovannoni and Becerra, 1979), more recently there has been a recognition of the need to adopt a multifactorial perspective when attempting to explain why some children are exposed to physical punishment/maltreatment and others are not (Belsky, 1980(Belsky, , 1984Cicchetti and Rizley, 1981;Pianta et al, 1989).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parent, child, and contextual predictors of childhood physical punishment

Woodward

Fergusson

2002

Infant and Child Development

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Data gathered over the course of an 18-year longitudinal study of 1025 New Zealand children were used to: (a) develop a profile of the maternal, child, and contextual factors associated with differing levels of exposure to maternal physical punishment, and (b) identify the key predictors of maternal physical punishment as reported by young people at age 18. Results revealed the presence of clear linear associations between the extent of young people's reported exposure to physical punishment and a wide range of maternal, child, and contextual factors. The key predictors of physical punishment suggested that the psychosocial profile of those mothers at greatest risk of physically punishing or mistreating their child was that of a young woman with a personal history of strict parenting who entered motherhood at an early age, and who was attempting to parent a behaviourally difficult child within a dysfunctional family environment characterized by elevated rates of inter-parental violence and childhood sexual abuse. These findings were consistent with a cumulative risk factor model in which increasing risk factor exposure is associated with increasing levels of child physical punishment/maltreatment.

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Physical child abuse: A dual-component analysis

Cited by 102 publications

References 61 publications

Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review.

Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review.

Disciplinary Practices With Children: Parental Sources of Information, Attitudes, and Educational Needs

Parent, child, and contextual predictors of childhood physical punishment

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