Sentences with phrase «effects of spanking»

This is important as over-arousal may lead to oppositionality and avoidance, which may decrease the impact of parental teaching and explain the poor positive effects of spanking.

It also appears that the effects of spanking children depend on parenting style.

As parents and professionals hear more and more, from mainstream media especially, about the ever - mounting research of the negative effects of spanking, timeouts and other punishments — more parents will be willing to go through the hard work of addressing their often generations - deep perspectives on what it means to have a healthy relationship and to change their hearts toward parenting.

And the effects of spanking may depend — in part — on culture.

The research is unequivocal in showing the long - term negative effects of spanking and hitting children.

Even if we ignore the many negative long - term effects of spanking, it simply makes no sense to rely on a method of discipline that will only work for a few short years.

Further efforts to identify moderators of the effects of spanking on children's adjustment are necessary.

Other preventive effects and harmful effects of spanking may occur depending on the child and the family context.

As research continues to reveal the detrimental effects of spanking, public opinion will begin to shift and our laws will naturally follow suit.

Did you know that there is less evidence linking lead exposure to developmental delays in children and asbestos to cancer than there is of the short and long - term detrimental effects of spanking?

In the above - mentioned study conducted by Elizabeth Gershoff, she found that situational factors, namely parental relationship, mitigated the negative effects of spanking.

The proposition that the effects of spankings are limited to the context in which they were administered makes both results understandable.

Not exact matches

Spanking had almost no disciplinary effect on me, but made me afraid of my parents and sneakier.»

Lastly, we dive into the controversial subject of spanking: the pros, cons and long term effects on children.

A new study of more than 2,500 toddlers from low - income families found that spanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mental development.

The Globe article quoted Dr. Murray Straus, a sociologist at the University of New Hampshire who studies the effects of corporal punishment on kids, as saying that people think that spanking will work when nothing else does.

Although these effects were somewhat small, the study is just the latest of many supporting psychologists» advice against spanking.

(Some parents, of course, choose to spank, but many experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, do not support spanking and point to research showing the negative effects of corporal punishment, especially when parents hit kids in anger.)

Even in the face of study after study detailing the detrimental effects of physical punishment on young children, more than ninety - percent of American parents still admit to spanking their toddlers and preschoolers, even if they don't believe that it is a good alternative.

52 The American Academy of Pediatrics cautions that «corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects,» and «recommends that parents be encouraged and assisted in the development of methods other than spanking for managing undesired behavior.»

When Jennifer Lansford and her colleagues tracked a group of children for more than a decade, they found links between spanking and aggressive behavior problems, but the effect depended on how long parents used spanking as a disciplinary tactic.

In terms of age and gender, studies have shown that older parents are less likely to use corporal punishment; and mothers spank more often than fathers although this may be an effect of the greater amount of time that mothers spend with children (Straus and Donnelly, 1994; Socolar and Stein, 1995).

In latter studies, Strauss et al, (1997) suggested that some of the potential harmful effects of frequent and severe spankings include subsequent antisocial behavior of children (Straus et al, 1997).

Although the exact measures differed, the absolute difference in the proportions of parents who reported ever slapping in the face or spanking with an object (overall: 4 %; randomization: 2 %; quasi-experimental: 6 %) was consistent with the 7 % difference in the proportions of parents who reported spanking their child in the past week in the Early Head Start evaluation.31 The HS effect is noticeable, given the overall lower reports of corporal punishment (14 % in the HS control group, compared with 54 % in the Early Head Start control group).

Although the use of negative discipline strategies was low, we believe that reductions in yelling in anger, threatening, slapping in the face, and spanking with an object are meaningful given the associations of early discipline strategies with later socioemotional development, mental health, and parent - child relationships.30 These treatment effects were observed in families who participated in a universal intervention broadly focused on development and behavior.

Toward a developmental - contextual model of the effects of parental spanking on children's aggression.

The results indicated that effect sizes significantly favored conditional spanking over 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary tactics for reducing child noncompliance or antisocial behavior.

Toward a developmental — contextual model of the effects of parental spanking on children's aggression