Mulvaney, M. K., & Mebert, C. J. (2007). Parental corporal punishment predicts behavior problems in early childhood. Journal Of Family Psychology, 21(3), 389-397. doi:10.1037/0893-3200.21.3.389
Introduction Corporal punishment is the action of inflicting pain to the body and used as a “disciplinary” technique to correct a child’s behavior. For many decades, psychologists and parents have been battling about physical discipline and its detrimental effects on children specially kids between the ages between 3 to 6 years. This study is crucial because spanking children has become one of the most used techniques to punish young children as means of discipline, which is used by most parents in diverse ethnic group or parenting-style. As mentioned in the Corporal Punishment Predicts Behavior Problems article, authoritarian parents use CP with more frequency; permissive parents use it less frequently but more harshly. While in ethnic groups, CP has been found mainly in European children than in African American children because in the African-American communities spanking is more culturally accepted and viewed as an unique disciplinary technique used by parents. In this article, it studies the existence of …show more content…
The original results of this study show that temperament plays a role in the influence of corporal punishment. As it was stated before, children with difficult temperaments are most likely to be influenced to develop behavioral problems. This article studied the effects of physical discipline and the factors that play a part in corporal punishment. The fact is that CP is detrimental to the mental and physical health of children, it was mentioned that African American children were more adapted to physical discipline than Caucasian children because it was accepted in their culture. However, the examiner might consider this true, but studies suggest that CP is negative to the development of African American and Caucasian
Introduction Corporal punishment is the action of inflicting pain to the body and used as a “disciplinary” technique to correct a child’s behavior. For many decades, psychologists and parents have been battling about physical discipline and its detrimental effects on children specially kids between the ages between 3 to 6 years. This study is crucial because spanking children has become one of the most used techniques to punish young children as means of discipline, which is used by most parents in diverse ethnic group or parenting-style. As mentioned in the Corporal Punishment Predicts Behavior Problems article, authoritarian parents use CP with more frequency; permissive parents use it less frequently but more harshly. While in ethnic groups, CP has been found mainly in European children than in African American children because in the African-American communities spanking is more culturally accepted and viewed as an unique disciplinary technique used by parents. In this article, it studies the existence of …show more content…
The original results of this study show that temperament plays a role in the influence of corporal punishment. As it was stated before, children with difficult temperaments are most likely to be influenced to develop behavioral problems. This article studied the effects of physical discipline and the factors that play a part in corporal punishment. The fact is that CP is detrimental to the mental and physical health of children, it was mentioned that African American children were more adapted to physical discipline than Caucasian children because it was accepted in their culture. However, the examiner might consider this true, but studies suggest that CP is negative to the development of African American and Caucasian