Corporal punishment by parents and child-to-parent aggression in Spanish adolescents

Child-to-parent aggression (CPA) is a social problem that is re-ceiving much attention because of the increasing frequency and the conse-quences for its victims. The primary aim of this study was to assess the longitudinal relationship between receiving corporal punishment (CP) and perpetrating phys...

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Autores: Hoyo-Bilbao, Joana del, Gámez Guadix, Manuel, Calvete, Esther
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/681367
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/681367
https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.34.1.259601
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Child-to-parent aggression
Corporal punishment
Adolescent
Positive parenting
Aggression
Psicología
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Sumario:Child-to-parent aggression (CPA) is a social problem that is re-ceiving much attention because of the increasing frequency and the conse-quences for its victims. The primary aim of this study was to assess the longitudinal relationship between receiving corporal punishment (CP) and perpetrating physical and psychological CPA in adolescents. The second aim was to investigate whether receiving CP in a positive parenting con-text, age and sex of the adolescent, moderated the relationship between CP and CPA. A total of 896 adolescents (527 girls) between the ages of 13 and 19 (M = 14.88; SD = 1.021), completed measures of CPA, CP and positive parenting at Time 1 and six months later. The results showed that CP at Time 1 predicted an increased psychological CPA at Time 2. None of the variables (positive parenting, age and sex) moderated the relation-ship between CP at T1 and CPA at T2. These results suggest that CP is re-lated to CPA regardless of the context in which it is used, the age or sex of the child