Regional differences in spanking experiences and attitudes: A comparison of Northeastern and Southern college students

Flynn, Clifton P.

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“…Although this finding was not present for the African Americans in our sample, this finding does parallel national prevalence estimates for youth aged 12 – 17 on depressive symptomatology in which the southern tier of states have overall lower levels of depression than other regions of the country, especially after controlling for socioeconomic status (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2007). This finding is especially intriguing, given that the frequency of spanking, one of our main independent variables and a mental health stressor, is higher in the southern region of the United States (Flynn, 1994, 1996). This result led us to test whether the association of spanking might be moderated in some manner by residing in the South.…”

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Child Depressive Symptoms, Spanking, and Emotional Support: Differences Between African American and European American Youth

Christie‐Mizell¹,

Pryor²,

Grossman³

2008

Family Relations

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Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Mother and Child samples, we explored the relationships among child and adolescent depressive symptoms, spanking, and emotional support offered to youth. We present cross-sectional and change models for both African Americans and European Americans. Findings showed that regardless of race, spanking is associated with more depressive symptoms in the cross-sectional analysis but does not appear to maintain this relationship over time. With regard to emotional support, depressive symptoms for African American youth are inversely related to the emotional support their mothers provide for them in cross-sectional models, but the benefit does not persist in our change models. For European American children and adolescents, emotional support is associated with fewer depressive symptoms in the short term and over time.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child Depressive Symptoms, Spanking, and Emotional Support: Differences Between African American and European American Youth

Christie‐Mizell¹,

Pryor²,

Grossman³

2008

Family Relations

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“…Bruce, 1979;Dixon and Lizotte, 1987;Nisbett and Cohen, 1996). Contemporary evidence used to support this argument covers a vast range of attitudes and behaviors, including that Southernerswparticularly white male Southerners--are more likely to commit homicide, own guns, believe in gun ownership even if they do not own guns themselves (Young, 1986;Dixon and Lizotte, 1987;Nisbett, 1993;Nisbett and Cohen, 1996), spank their children, and believe that spanking is an appropriate response to children's misbehaviors (Nisbett, 1993;Flynn, 1996). Further, popular culture and empirical studies suggest that Southern men are more likely to both condone and engage in violent acts to protect their own well-being and "honor," and the well-being and "honor" of their loved ones (Nisbett, 1993;Nisbett and Cohen, 1996).…”

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confidence: 94%

Jocks, nerds, babes and thugs: A research note on regional differences in adolescent gender norms

Suitor

Carter

1999

Gend. Issues

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We use data from 1,755 college students to explore regional differences in adolescent gender norms. Students attending four Northern universities and three Southern universities during the 1997-1998 academic year provided information on the ways that adolescents in their high schools had gained prestige with peers. The analyses revealed significant gender differences on fourteen of the fifteen most common avenues to prestige. Leading avenues to prestige for boys--sports, grades, and intelligence---did not vary by region. Leading avenues to prestige for gifts--physical attractiveness, grades, and intelligence--also did not vary by region. However, consistent with the stronger emphasis on traditional moral views generally found in the South than the North, regional differences were found for several other avenues to prestige.During the past two decades, there has been substantial interest in gender-role attitudes and behaviors among adolescents (cf. Williams and White, 1983; Eder, J. Jill Suitor is Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University. Her work focuses on the effects of status transitions on intergenerational relations, social support networks, and marital quality. In collaboration with Karl Pillemer, she is currently studying caregivers' social networks during bereavement, and relations between caregivers and nursing home staff.Rebecca S.

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“…Returning to the earlier discussion of the effects of corporal punishment, it is possible that both the relationship between school shooting fatalities and higher rates of school corporal punishment (Arcus, 2002) could be due to a deficit in social capital. Much focus centers on the American south, which displays a higher frequency of school corporal punishment (Cohen, 1996;Owen, 2005), higher levels of approval for corporal punishment (Straus and Mathur, 1996), pro-corporal punishment attitudes, and more corporal punishment experiences (Flynn, 1996). Southern tendencies for violence (in general) have been attributed to a southern ''culture of honor'' (Cohen et al, 1996, p. 945), a ''frontier heritage,'' (Cohen, 1996, p. 964) and a ''legacy of slavery'' (Cohen, 1996, p. 964).…”

Section: Social Capitalmentioning

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Explaining School Corporal Punishment: Evangelical Protestantism and Social Capital in a Path Model

Owen

Wagner

2006

Soc Just Res

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School corporal punishment is associated with many negative outcomes. This research explores the antecedents to the practice and prevalence of school corporal punishment. A series of regression models indicated that two variables were significant predictors of a state's practice of school corporal punishment: rate of evangelical Protestant adherents and social capital. A path analysis indicated that these two variables significantly predicted the rate of school corporal punishment in practicing states. The path analysis also revealed a significant and negative relationship between rate of evangelical Protestant adherents and social capital, but no relationship between rate of mainstream Protestant adherents and social capital. A mediation analysis indicated that social capital serves as a mediating variable between evangelical Protestantism and rate of school corporal punishment. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

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Regional differences in spanking experiences and attitudes: A comparison of Northeastern and Southern college students

Abstract: This study examined regional differences in college students

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Child Depressive Symptoms, Spanking, and Emotional Support: Differences Between African American and European American Youth

Child Depressive Symptoms, Spanking, and Emotional Support: Differences Between African American and European American Youth

Jocks, nerds, babes and thugs: A research note on regional differences in adolescent gender norms

Explaining School Corporal Punishment: Evangelical Protestantism and Social Capital in a Path Model

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