RT Article
T1 Change in caregivers’ attitudes and use of corporal punishment following a legal ban: a multi-country longitudinal comparison
JF Child maltreatment
VO 27
IS 4
SP 561
OP 571
A1 Peña Alampay, Liane
A2 Godwin, Jennifer
A2 Lansford, Jennifer E.
A2 Oburu, Paul
A2 Bornstein, Marc H. 1947-
A2 Chang, Lei
A2 Deater-Deckard, Kirby
A2 Rothenberg, W. Andrew
A2 Malone, Patrick S.
A2 Skinner, Ann T.
A2 Pastorelli, Concetta
A2 Sorbring, Emma
A2 Steinberg, Laurence D. 1952-
A2 Tapanya, Sombat
A2 Uribe Tirado, Lilliana M.
A2 Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean
A2 Al-Hassan, Suha M.
A2 Bacchini, Dario
A2 Di Giunta, Laura
A2 Dodge, Kenneth A. 1954-
A2 Gurdal, Sevtap
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1858876753
AB We examined whether a policy banning corporal punishment enacted in Kenya in 2010 is associated with changes in Kenyan caregivers? use of corporal punishment and beliefs in its effectiveness and normativeness, and compared to caregivers in six countries without bans in the same period. Using a longitudinal study with six waves of panel data (2008?2016), mothers (N = 1086) in Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, and United States reported household use of corporal punishment and beliefs about its effectiveness and normativeness. Random intercept models and multi-group piecewise growth curve models indicated that the proportion of corporal punishment behaviors used by the Kenyan caregivers decreased post-ban at a significantly different rate compared to the caregivers in other countries in the same period. Beliefs of effectiveness of corporal punishment were declining among the caregivers in all sites, whereas the Kenyan mothers reported increasing perceptions of normativeness of corporal punishment post-ban, different from the other sites. While other contributing factors cannot be ruled out, our natural experiment suggests that corporal punishment decreased after a national ban, a shift that was not evident in sites without bans in the same period.
NO Literaturverzeichnis
K1 child maltreatment
K1 Legal aspects
K1 longitudinal research
K1 Parenting
DO 10.1177/10775595211036401