Sentences with phrase «studies on corporal punishment»

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I've been exercising these tools now for some twenty years as I have studied and written exhaustively about doctrinal issues, including publishing a book on corporal punishment (spanking) in the Bible in the hope of shedding new light on that issue.»

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.

According to Straus, it has decreased only slightly from 1985 when studies showed 90 percent of parents used corporal punishment on toddlers and more than half continued to inflict it on children up to the early teen years.

In fact, thanks to a flurry of studies on spanking, we know that corporal punishment has a host of negative psychological consequences for kids.

Few studies have been conducted that examine SCP and its consequences, but it can be drawn from research on parental corporal punishment that SCP likely has negative impacts on children's social, behavioral and mental well - being, say the researchers.

«If we can educate people about this issue of corporal punishment, these studies show that we can in a very quick way begin changing attitudes,» said Holden, a professor in the SMU Department of Psychology who has carried out extensive research on spanking.

[George W. Holden, Paul A. Williamson and Grant W. O. Holland, Eavesdropping on the family: A pilot investigation of corporal punishment in the home] Previous studies using parental self - reports have estimated that parents spank about 18 times per year.

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Holden (echoing Gershoff's concerns) notes that because so few studies really accurately differentiate between abuse and non-abusive corporal punishment, between for example an open - handed smack on the butt or hand and a closed fist to the face or chest, it is hard to draw conclusions about spanking as opposed to abuse based on these studies.

As noted above, parents reported on their own behavior in most studies of corporal punishment.

While some have studied child characteristics that seem to lead to abuse, Gershoff focused more on adult characteristics, and found corporal punishment was more likely when parents were younger, female, more aggressive, depressed, inconsistent and ineffective in their parenting style, or reliant on authoritarian techniques.

The present study used data from a panel study of 332 Midwestern families to examine the impact of harsh corporal punishment and quality of parental involvement on three adolescent outcomes — aggressiveness, delinquency, and psychological well - being.

Based on a 2012 study that Duncombe, Havighurst, Holland and Frankling conducted with 373 children between the ages of 5 and 9 years - old, they found that parents» mental health; a habit of dismissing their children» s emotions such as sadness, «inconsistent parental discipline and corporal punishment are associated with the development of serious problem behavior» (p. 728).