School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 113 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences, Pittsburg State University, 1701 S. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS, 66762, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2021 May;115:105027. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105027. Epub 2021 Mar 16.
Research on generational transmission of violence in general suggests that corporal punishment leads to children's aggressive behavior. However, less clear is the intervening mechanisms that link corporal punishment with adolescent aggression and the moderation on the intervening mechanisms.
This study examined the mediating role of negative emotions, endorsement of violence, and low self-control in the association between parental corporal punishment and adolescent aggression and investigated whether the intervening mechanisms operated differently according to different levels of parental responsiveness and demandingness.
Data from a sample (N = 1,635) of students in central China were used. The students were from 4 schools, aged between 12-18.
Conditional process analysis was performed to assess the moderated mediation.
The relations of corporal punishment with adolescent aggression were partially mediated by adolescent's endorsement of violence (b = .027, p < .001), negative emotion (b = .028, p < .001), and low self-control (b = .008, p = .007). In addition, these indirect effects were moderated by parental responsiveness and demandingness.
Our study adds further empirical credence in our collective effort to reduce adolescent aggressive behavior by banning corporal punishment as a disciplinary practice. Further, parenting programs by social welfare agencies should consider the important role of demandingness. Interventions could reduce adolescent aggression also by adolescent resilience development, improving one's self-control and management of negative emotion while cultivating moral beliefs disapprove of violence.
一般来说，关于代际暴力的研究表明，体罚会导致儿童的攻击行为。然而，将体罚与青少年攻击行为联系起来的中介机制以及这些机制的调节作用还不太清楚。
本研究检验了负性情绪、暴力认同和低自我控制在父母体罚与青少年攻击行为之间的中介作用，并探讨了这些中介机制是否根据父母反应性和要求性的不同水平而产生不同的作用。
本研究使用了来自中国中部地区一个样本（N=1635）的学生数据。这些学生来自 4 所学校，年龄在 12-18 岁之间。
采用条件过程分析来评估中介的调节作用。
体罚与青少年攻击行为的关系部分通过青少年对暴力的认同（b=.027，p<.001）、负性情绪（b=.028，p<.001）和低自我控制（b=.008，p=.007）来介导。此外，这些间接效应受到父母反应性和要求性的调节。
我们的研究通过禁止体罚作为一种纪律实践，为减少青少年攻击行为的集体努力提供了进一步的经验依据。此外，社会福利机构的育儿计划应考虑到要求性的重要作用。通过培养道德信仰来反对暴力，提高自我控制和管理负性情绪，干预措施也可以减少青少年的攻击行为。
