A longitudinal examination of mothers’ and fathers’ social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study examined whether parents' social information processing was related to their subsequent reports of their harsh discipline. Interviews were conducted with mothers (n = 1,277) and fathers (n = 1,030) of children in 1,297 families in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States), initially when children were 7 to 9 years old and again 1 year later. Structural equation models showed that parents' positive evaluations of aggressive responses to hypothetical childrearing vignettes at Time 1 predicted parents' self-reported harsh physical and nonphysical discipline at Time 2. This link was consistent across mothers and fathers, and across the nine countries, providing support for the universality of the link between positive evaluations of harsh discipline and parents' aggressive behavior toward children. The results suggest that international efforts to eliminate violence toward children could target parents' beliefs about the acceptability and advisability of using harsh physical and nonphysical forms of discipline.
Source: Development and Psychopathology
Authors: Jennifer E. Lansford, Darren Woodlief, Patrick S. Malone, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Liane Peña Alampay, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge
Institutions: Duke University, University of South Carolina, Maseno University, Sapienza University of Rome, University West, Chiang Mai University, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogota, Foro Italico University of Rome, Hashemite University, Ateneo de Manila University, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Virginia Tech
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Methodological Developments in the Prevention of Adolescent Drug Use, Parent Behavior and Child Adjustment Across Cultures, Adolescent Drug Use: Development, Prevention and Policy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Covid-Related Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Adjustment in Early Adulthood Across Cultures
OpenAlex ID: W2146444864