Self-reported discipline among Swedish parents of preschool children

Palmérus, Kerstin

doi:10.1002/(sici)1522-7219(199909)8:3<155::aid-icd195>3.0.co;2-j

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“…pleading with them to stop doing undesirable acts). For a more detailed descriptions of all the 18 discipline strategies, see Palmérus (1999) and the Scarr et al (1994) manual.…”

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Parenting stress and self-reported discipline strategies of Kenyan caregiving grandmothers

Oburu

Palmérus

2003

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The present study examined the discipline methods used and personal and social determinants of power assertive strategies amongst 113 part-time and 128 full-time adoptive grandmothers of Kenyan children aged 1-10 years. Most of these children had been orphaned by AIDS. Evidence obtained from the study suggested that these caregivers' employment of power assertive strategies were linked to the total stress experienced, educational attainment, and child age but not to the gender of children adopted. The results also indicated a higher prevalence of the assertive and behaviour modification strategies amongst participants over the mean age of 62 years, respondents having basic education (1-12yrs), and those dealing with transgressions of children aged 6 years and above. Coercive verbal forms of control were mainly used by younger grandmothers, or caregivers of children aged less than 6 years. The least preferred inductive strategies were employed by younger respondents, persons lacking formal education, or those dealing with children of both gender aged below 6 years. These findings suggested that the antecedents of power assertive strategies lay both within personal and contextual factors.

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“…pleading with them to stop doing undesirable acts). For a more detailed descriptions of all the 18 discipline strategies, see Palmérus (1999) and the Scarr et al (1994) manual.…”

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“…The wider range of possible responses that can be covered by the PDI makes it an effective instrument in determining parental disciplinary preferences across cultures (Palmérus, 1999). The PDI has also been reported by Deater-Deckard and Scarr (1996) to have acceptable psychometric properties.…”

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Parenting stress and self-reported discipline strategies of Kenyan caregiving grandmothers

Oburu

Palmérus

2003

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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“…Swedish parents’ endorsement of corporal punishment as a necessary discipline method has declined over time, both before and after the ban (from 53% in 1965 to 26% in 1978 and to 11% by 1994; Edfeldt, 1985, Ziegert, 1983). Use of corporal punishment in Sweden has declined along with endorsement of its use (Durrant, 1999; Palmérus, 1999). Almost every child born in the mid-1950s experienced corporal punishment (Stattin, Janson, Klackenberg-Larsson, & Magnusson, 1995).…”

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A longitudinal examination of mothers’ and fathers’ social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries

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This study examined whether parents’ social information processing was related to their subsequent reports of their harsh discipline. Interviews were conducted with mothers (n = 1277) and fathers (n = 1030) of children in 1297 families in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States), initially when children were 7- to 9-years-old and again one year later. Structural equation models showed that parents’ positive evaluations of aggressive responses to hypothetical childrearing vignettes at Time 1 predicted parents’ self-reported harsh physical and nonphysical discipline at Time 2. This link was consistent across mothers and fathers and across the nine countries, providing support for the universality of the link between positive evaluations of harsh discipline and parents’ aggressive behavior toward children. The results suggest that international efforts to eliminate violence toward children could target parents’ beliefs about the acceptability and advisability of using harsh physical and nonphysical forms of discipline.

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“…To further ensure comparability between the samples, Swedish and U.S. fathers were matched pairwise in terms of crucial demographic variables such as fathers' level of education, as well as the sex and age of children. These variables have previously been linked to a wide range of parenting practices, including choices of disciplining strategies (Kelley et al, 1992;Lytton & Romney, 1991;Palmérus, 1999;Pinkerton & Scarr, 1995;Sorbring, Rödholm-Funnemark, & Palmérus, 2003).…”

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“…Furthermore, investigations of parents' preferences for specific disciplining techniques have revealed few mother-father differences (Pinkerton & Scarr, 1995). However, when confronted with a misbehaving preschool child, Swedish fathers, compared with mothers, were more inclined to redefine the child's misconduct as non-transgressing behavior (Palmérus, 1999). They were also less likely to explain to the child why they disapproved of its behavior.…”

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Swedish parents' self‐reported use of discipline in response to continued misconduct by their pre‐school children

Palmérus

Jutengren

2003

Infant and Child Development

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This thesis examined two key aspects of intergenerational disagreements. The first aspect dealt with Swedish parents' preferences for discipline with respect to the national emphasis on child democracy. Parents of preschool children were interviewed so as to examine their responses to hypothetical situations typical of common child misbehavior and their use of three assertive disciplinary strategies (coercion, behavior modification, and verbal control) were examined. In Study I, Swedish fathers' preferences for discipline were compared with the preferences of fathers from the United States (U.S.). The results showed that fathers' overall references to assertive discipline were on the same level in the Swedish sample as they were in the U.S. sample. However, compared with the Americans, the Swedes mentioned using more verbal control and less behavior modification. The aim of Study II was to investigate how Swedish parents respond across initial and recurring episodes of child misconduct. Parents' overall reports of assertive discipline revealed no significant shifts across first-and second-time child transgressions. In terms of individual strategies, however, fathers did exchange verbal control for coercion and behavior modification, but only when faced with serious situations. Although more research is needed to find out the possible effects of the national family policy in Sweden, a general conclusion is that Swedish parents seem to employ a restrictive, rather than punitive, approach to parent-child conflict. The second aspect of this thesis focused on the links between parental authority and adolescents' psychosocial adjustment. The purpose was to address some of the limitations that developmental researchers have noted in widespread typology models of parenting styles. To separate adolescents' voluntary co-operation with parental expectations from parents' deliberate intentions to exert behavior control, in contrast with many previous investigations, Study III measured the strategies of firm control and monitoring by asking parents for their responses to hypothetical situations involving potential conflict. The results indicated little support for a direct association between parental use of firm control and monitoring on the one side and adolescents' psychosocial adjustment on the other. Attempting to add to the understanding of the links between parenting and adolescent psychosocial adjustment, Study IV examined adolescents' perceptions of how conflicts with their parents are usually resolved (i.e., conflict resolution schemas). The results revealed that adolescents with high and low levels of adjustment differed in their views of how conflicts with their parents were usually resolved. In particular, well-adjusted adolescents were more likely to see themselves as complying with parental expectancies on a voluntary basis. In conclusion, characteristics of the parent-adolescent relationship that promote adolescents' conflict resolution expectancies seem to be more important to adolescents' positive developme...

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Self-reported discipline among Swedish parents of preschool children

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Parenting stress and self-reported discipline strategies of Kenyan caregiving grandmothers

Parenting stress and self-reported discipline strategies of Kenyan caregiving grandmothers

A longitudinal examination of mothers’ and fathers’ social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries

Swedish parents' self‐reported use of discipline in response to continued misconduct by their pre‐school children

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