التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Strengthening Causal Estimates for Links Between Spanking and Children’s Externalizing Behavior Problems. |
| المؤلفون: |
Gershoff, Elizabeth T.1 liz.gershoff@austin.utexas.edu, Sattler, Kierra M. P.1, Ansari, Arya2 |
| المصدر: |
Psychological Science (0956-7976). Jan2018, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p110-120. 11p. 2 Charts. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CORPORAL punishment of children, EXTERNALIZING behavior, CHILD psychology |
| مستخلص: |
Establishing causal links when experiments are not feasible is an important challenge for psychology researchers. The question of whether parents’ spanking causes children’s externalizing behavior problems poses such a challenge because randomized experiments of spanking are unethical, and correlational studies cannot rule out potential selection factors. This study used propensity score matching based on the lifetime prevalence and recent incidence of spanking in a large and nationally representative sample (N = 12,112) as well as lagged dependent variables to get as close to causal estimates outside an experiment as possible. Whether children were spanked at the age of 5 years predicted increases in externalizing behavior problems by ages 6 and 8, even after the groups based on spanking prevalence or incidence were matched on a range of sociodemographic, family, and cultural characteristics and children’s initial behavior problems. These statistically rigorous methods yield the conclusion that spanking predicts a deterioration of children’s externalizing behavior over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
|
Copyright of Psychological Science (0956-7976) is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Business Source Index |
