Sorry but with the extensive research on the impact of modeling, I think it's a little blithe to assume that this research on the impact of spanking on a child's aggressiveness (that has been conducted for literally decades) goes into the same category as the more egregious examples we have discussed in the recent past. Hundreds of studies have found a strong association between the use of physical punishment and the level of aggression to be strong. And I also happen to find it appalling that we are now willing to say parents spank because the child is more difficult--who's the adult in this interaction?! And are African-American children innately more difficult than other groups as their parents use spanking significantly more than other ethnic groups? And lower class parents use spanking significantly more than middle class parents so are their children also innately more difficult?
The research on the impact of discipline on children has been conducted for eons and this listserv is doing a disservice to this extensive and ongoing research to be willing to casually put it into the "gee whiz, chicken or the egg," category. I think the amount of time and consistency of the research studies through meta-analysis that the use of physical punishment precedes the aggression of the children. Gee, we use to blame the parents for every thing. Now we seem ready and willing to blame the child for the type of discipline their parents decide to use. Ludicrous to the extreme. Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu > Exactly. This should have been filed under the "correlation versus > causation" thread. The HealthDay summary did note "mothers who said their > children were "fussy" babies were more likely to spank them at ages 1," so > the question is, if these fussy children had not been spanked, would they > still have developed into the more aggressive children at age 2. > > Cheers, > > Karl W. > ________________________________ > From: Paul Brandon [mailto:paul.bran...@mnsu.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:42 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Early Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study > Shows - Yahoo! News > > > The usual-- > > It was a retrospective verbal report study, they didn't assign toddlers > randomly to spanked/nonspanked groups etc etc. > > They could just as well concluded that more aggressive toddlers are more > likely to be spanked. > > On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote: > > > Apropos of the earlier debate on spanking here. > http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090915/hl_hsn/earlyspankingsmakeforaggressivetoddlersstudyshows > > Paul Brandon > Emeritus Professor of Psychology > Minnesota State University, Mankato > paul.bran...@mnsu.edu<mailto:paul.bran...@mnsu.edu> > > > > --- > > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
