Spanking remains common around the world, despite evidence linking corporal punishment
to detrimental child outcomes. This study tested whether children (Mage= 11.60) who were …

Social scientists continue to debate the impact of spanking and corporal punishment (CP) on
negative child outcomes including externalizing and internalizing behavior problems and …

This study examined the prevalence and determinants of spanking of children at 3 years of
age and the associations between spanking and externalizing behaviour and receptive …

Objective: The aim of this paper was to better differentiate physical discipline, corporal
punishment, and physical child abuse based on samples drawn from the United States …

Spanking is one of the most common forms of child discipline used by parents around the
world. Research on children in high-income countries has shown that parental spanking is …

This study identifies predictors of favorable attitudes toward spanking. Analyses were
performed with survey data collected from a representative sample of 1,000 adults from …

This study examined the prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of spanking and verbal
punishment in 2,573 low‐income White, African American, and Mexican American toddlers …

Research suggests that corporal punishment is related to higher levels of child externalizing
behavior, but there has been controversy regarding whether infrequent, mild spanking …

Positive attitudes toward the use of corporal punishment (CP) predict subsequent spanking
behavior. Given that CP has frequently been associated with behavior problems in children …

This study examined college students' attitudes toward spanking as a function of the
situational context and age of the child. As expected, respondents were more likely to find …