Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender

• Main Authors: Lansford, Jennifer E, Alampay, Liane Peña, Al-Hassan, Suha M, 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
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2010
• Subjects: Child Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/151; https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijpedi/2010/672780/
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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 141...