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- Title
Explaining School Corporal Punishment: Evangelical Protestantism and Social Capital in a Path Model.
- Authors
Owen, Stephen; Wagner, Kenneth
- Abstract
School corporal punishment is associated with many negative outcomes. This research explores the antecedents to the practice and prevalence of school corporal punishment. A series of regression models indicated that two variables were significant predictors of a state’s practice of school corporal punishment: rate of evangelical Protestant adherents and social capital. A path analysis indicated that these two variables significantly predicted the rate of school corporal punishment in practicing states. The path analysis also revealed a significant and negative relationship between rate of evangelical Protestant adherents and social capital, but no relationship between rate of mainstream Protestant adherents and social capital. A mediation analysis indicated that social capital serves as a mediating variable between evangelical Protestantism and rate of school corporal punishment. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.
- Subjects
CORPORAL punishment; DISCIPLINE of children; EVANGELICALISM; PROTESTANTISM; REGRESSION analysis; CRITICAL path analysis
- Publication
Social Justice Research, 2006, Vol 19, Issue 4, p471
- ISSN
0885-7466
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11211-006-0024-6