Open AccessExperiences of punishment by parents during childhood: A retrospective study
Author(s) -
Olivera Isakovic,
Ivana Mihić,
Tijana Karić
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
temida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0941
pISSN - 1450-6637
DOI - 10.2298/tem1401131i
Subject(s) - corporal punishment , psychology , punishment (psychology) , developmental psychology , spanking , child discipline , sample (material) , social psychology , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , poison control , environmental health , chemistry , chromatography
The study described perceived differences in the choice of child rearing practices aimed at correcting children’s inappropriate behaviors as remembered by the participants at young adulthood. The sample consisted of 207 students of under-graduate studies of the University of Novi Sad. The most of the participants does not have children and they grew up in complete families. On the Dimensions of Discipline Inventory (A) (DDI-A, Straus, Fauchier, 2007), the participants estimated the experience and methods of disciplining which were used by their parents during their childhood. The participants describe uniform discipline behaviors of their parents regarding the estimated discipline techniques. These behaviors are dominated by the punishing ones, and the differences between fathers and mothers are visible in a stronger tendency to describe fathers as the ones who use corporal punishment, abolish privileges and give restorative tasks. The described discipline techniques for both fathers and mothers remain stable and similar, regardless of the socio-demographic characteristics of the families as family completeness, work experience and level of education of the parents, as well as estimated economic status of the family