Relationships between parents' use of corporal punishment and their children's endorsement of spanking and hitting other children

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 639-646

  Simons, Dominique A ^a   Wurtele, Sandy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive problem solving; Corporal punishment; Intergenerational cycle of violence; Physical punishment; Spanking

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPORAL PUNISHMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HITTING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUNISHMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SPANKING; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PUNISHMENT; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77956461140     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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