Grasmick H G, Bursik R J, Kimpel M
Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, Norman 73019-0315.
Violence Vict. 1991 Winter;6(4):283-98.
The present research demonstrates what others have suspected: Protestant fundamentalism is closely linked to favorable attitudes toward corporal punishment of children in the home and the school. The relationship persists with controls for socioeconomic and demographic variables. Three explanations of the greater support for corporal punishment among people affiliated with fundamentalist denominations are tested. Greater personal religiosity and adherence to a punitive image of God account for very little of the relationship. Instead, the emphasis on biblical literalness among fundamentalists appears to be a major source of their advocacy of corporal punishment. Given the potential political effectiveness of fundamentalist churches, the policy implications of these findings present a difficult challenge for those who have called for the prohibition of corporal punishment of children as a crucial step toward reducing the level of violence in our society.
新教原教旨主义与家庭和学校中对儿童体罚的支持态度密切相关。在控制了社会经济和人口变量之后，这种关系依然存在。研究对原教旨主义教派信徒中对体罚支持度更高的现象进行了三种解释的检验。更高的个人宗教虔诚度以及对惩罚性上帝形象的信奉在这种关系中所占比例极小。相反，原教旨主义者对圣经字面意义的强调似乎是他们支持体罚的主要根源。鉴于原教旨主义教会潜在的政治影响力，这些研究结果的政策含义给那些呼吁禁止对儿童体罚以作为降低我们社会暴力程度关键一步的人带来了严峻挑战。
