1 California State University, Sacramento, USA.
2 Prevention Research Center, Oakland, CA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2019 Oct;34(19):3983-3994. doi: 10.1177/0886260516674197. Epub 2016 Oct 18.
Parental religiosity has been associated with corporal punishment. However, most of this research has focused exclusively on Christians and has not examined physical abuse. In addition, little is known about how the larger religious environment might be associated with discipline behaviors. In this exploratory study, we examine how individual- and county-level religious attendance are related to corporal punishment and physical abuse. We sampled and surveyed 3,023 parents of children aged 12 and younger from 50 mid-sized California cities. We used weighted Poisson models to calculate the frequency of corporal punishment and physical abuse in the past year. Parents who attend religious groups used corporal punishment more frequently than parents who did not attend religious groups. However, those who lived in counties with greater rates of religious participation used corporal punishment less frequently than those living in counties with lower rates of religious participation. There were no effects for religious participation on physical abuse at the individual or county level. This exploratory study suggests that parents who attend religious groups may be more likely to use some types of physical discipline with children. Religious groups could be imparting parenting norms supporting corporal punishment at the individual level. More research examining specific doctrines and faiths is needed to validate the study findings.
父母的宗教信仰与体罚有关。然而，大多数此类研究都只关注基督教，并未研究身体虐待。此外，关于更大的宗教环境如何与纪律行为相关，人们知之甚少。在这项探索性研究中，我们研究了个人和县级宗教参与度与体罚和身体虐待的关系。我们从加利福尼亚州 50 个中等规模城市中抽取并调查了 3023 名 12 岁以下儿童的父母。我们使用加权泊松模型计算了过去一年中体罚和身体虐待的频率。参加宗教团体的父母比不参加宗教团体的父母更频繁地使用体罚。然而，那些居住在宗教参与率较高的县的父母比居住在宗教参与率较低的县的父母更不频繁地使用体罚。在个人或县级层面，宗教参与对身体虐待没有影响。这项探索性研究表明，参加宗教团体的父母可能更有可能对孩子使用某些类型的身体纪律。宗教团体可能在个人层面上传递支持体罚的育儿规范。需要更多研究具体教义和信仰来验证研究结果。
