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- Title
Longitudinal Links Between Spanking and Children's Externalizing Behaviors in a National Sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Families.
- Authors
Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Sexton, Holly R.; Davis‐Kean, Pamela; Sameroff, Arnold J.
- Abstract
This study examined whether the longitudinal links between mothers' use of spanking and children's externalizing behaviors are moderated by family race/ethnicity, as would be predicted by cultural normativeness theory, once mean differences in frequency of use are controlled. A nationally representative sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families ( n = 11,044) was used to test a cross-lagged path model from 5 to 8 years old. While race/ethnic differences were observed in the frequency of spanking, no differences were found in the associations of spanking and externalizing over time: Early spanking predicted increases in children's externalizing while early child externalizing elicited more spanking over time across all race/ethnic groups.
- Publication
Child Development, 2012, Vol 83, Issue 3, p838
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01732.x