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Spanking doesn't work and is counterproductive
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30303
Subject(s) - spanking , psychology , aggression , corporal punishment , cognition , developmental psychology , punishment (psychology) , social psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency
Rather than making behavior better, spanking makes it worse, with children more likely to be defiant and more likely to have increased antisocial behavior, aggression, and cognitive difficulties, research published last year in the Journal of Family Psychology found. The study looked at 50 years of research involving more than 160,000 children.