Correlates and consequences of spanking and verbal punishment for low-income white, African american, and Mexican American toddlers

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1403-1420

  Berlin, Lisa J ^a   Ispa, Jean M ^b   Fine, Mark A ^b   Malone, Patrick S ^c   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^d   Brady Smith, Christy ^d   Ayoub, Catherine ^e   Bai, Yu ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAUCASIAN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD REARING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD REARING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; POVERTY; PUNISHMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349220842     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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