Civil conflict, domestic violence, and poverty as predictors of corporal punishment in Colombia
Civil conflict, domestic violence, and poverty as predictors of corporal punishment in Colombia
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DOI：
10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.02.003
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Castillo, Berenice
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作者：
Cuartas, Jorge;Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew;Castillo, Berenice
背景资料：由于50多年战争的持续影响，哥伦比亚的幼儿面临多种风险因素，如贫困，内战和家庭暴力。除了这些环境压力因素外，公众和法律的对体罚的支持仍然很高，这表现在哥伦比亚儿童遭受体罚的高流行率上。用物体和打屁股），以告知预防和干预战略。参与者和设置：我们使用的信息收集在2015年从一个代表性的样本11,759名母亲的孩子小于5岁在哥伦比亚。方法：我们采用多层次模型来解释的家庭聚集在217个城市。结果：结果表明，母亲先前遭受过自己父母的体罚，（beta = 0.229; p < 0.01），对家庭暴力的态度（beta = 0.013; p < 0.05），市政杀人率（β = 0.028; p < 0.05）和武装团体的存在（β = 0.031; p < 0.05）、家庭贫困（β = 0.030; p < 0.01）和市政府贫困（β = 0.022; p < 0.05）预测母亲用物体打年幼子女。然而，家庭（β = -0.028; p < 0.05）和市政贫困（β = -0.016; p < 0.05）与母亲使用体罚呈负相关。结论：这些研究结果表明，家庭和社区层面的因素与父母使用体罚同时存在关联。鉴于越来越多的证据表明体罚对儿童福祉和发展产生不利影响，有必要采取立法努力，减少并最终禁止体罚。
Background: With lingering effects from more than 50 years of war, young children in Colombia are exposed to multiple risk factors such as poverty, civil conflict, and domestic violence. In addition to these environmental stressors, public and legal support for corporal punishment remains high, which is shown by the high prevalence of young children exposed to corporal punishment in Colombia.Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify individual, family, and municipality-level predictors of corporal punishment (i.e., hitting with objects and spanking) in Colombia in order to inform prevention and intervention strategies.Participants and setting: We use information gathered in 2015 from a representative sample of 11,759 mothers of children younger than five in Colombia.Methods: We employed multi-level models to account for the clustering of families in 217 municipalities.Results: Results show that mothers' prior exposure to corporal punishment by their own parents (beta = 0.229; p < 0.01), attitudes towards domestic violence (beta = 0.013; p < 0.05), municipality homicide rates (beta = 0.028; p < 0.05) and presence of armed groups (beta = 0.031; p < 0.05), house-hold poverty (beta = 0.030; p < 0.01) and poverty of the municipality (beta= 0.022; p < 0.05) predicted mothers' hitting their young children with an object. However, family (beta= -0.028; p < 0.05) and municipality poverty (beta = -0.016; p < 0.05) had a negative association with mothers' use of spanking.Conclusions: These findings suggest that both family and neighborhood level factors have simultaneous associations with parents' use of corporal punishment. Given the accumulating evidence concerning the adverse effects of corporal punishment on child well-being and development, legislative efforts aimed at reducing and ultimately banning corporal punishment are warranted.