Corporal Punishment’s Influence on Children’s Aggressive and Delinquent Behavior
Corporal Punishment’s Influence on Children’s Aggressive and Delinquent Behavior
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DOI：
10.1177/0093854811406070
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发表时间：
2011-05
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Sara Z. Morris;C. Gibson
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作者：
Sara Z. Morris;C. Gibson
研究表明，遭受体罚的儿童可能比没有受到体罚的儿童表现出更多的攻击性和犯罪行为。然而，过去的研究在方法论上受到限制。这主要是由于缺乏相匹配的体罚和不受体罚儿童的结果。为了解决这一局限性，使用倾向得分匹配分析来估计体罚对儿童行为的影响。利用芝加哥社区人类发展项目纵向研究的数据，研究结果表明，(a)存在大量选择偏差，表明遭受体罚的儿童和家庭特征与未受体罚的儿童和家庭特征有很大不同，(b)当遭受体罚的儿童（与未受到体罚的儿童）与受惩罚的倾向相匹配时，惩罚与随后的攻击和犯罪之间的关系在统计上变得不显着，并且实质上很小。根据过去的体罚研究讨论了研究结果，并讨论了当前研究的局限性以及未来克服这些局限性的方法。
Studies show that children subjected to corporal punishment may engage in more aggression and delinquent behaviors than those who are not. Past research, however, is limited methodologically. This is largely the result of a lack of matched corporally punished and nonpunished children. To address this limitation, a propensity score matching analysis was used to estimate the effects of corporal punishment on children’s behaviors. Using data from the longitudinal study of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, findings indicate that (a) a large amount of selection bias exists, indicating that child and family characteristics of those subjected to corporal punishment are substantially different from characteristics of those not punished, and (b) when children exposed to corporal punishment (vs. those who are not) are matched on their propensities of being punished, the relationship between punishment and subsequent aggression and delinquency become statistically nonsignificant and substantively small. Findings are discussed in light of past research on corporal punishment, and limitations of the current study and ways of overcoming them in the future are discussed.