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Spanking and adult mental health impairment: The case for the designation of spanking as an adverse childhood experience

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Afifi, Tracie O., Ford, Derek, Gershoff, Elizabeth T., Merrick, Melissa, Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew, Ports, Katie A., MacMillan, Harriet L., Holden, George W., Taylor, Catherine A., Lee, Shawna J., Peters Bennett, Robbyn·2017·Child Abuse & Neglect
DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.01.014PMC PMC7983058
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as child abuse are related to poor health outcomes. Spanking has indicated a similar association with health outcomes, but to date has not been considered an ACE. Physical and emotional abuse have been shown in previous research to correlate highly and may be similar in nature to spanking. To determine if spanking should be considered an ACE, this study aimed to examine 1): the grouping of spanking with physical and emotional abuse; and 2) if spanking has similar associations with poor adult health problems and accounts for additional model variance. Adult mental health problems included depressive affect, suicide attempts, moderate to heavy drinking, and street drug use. Data were from the CDC-Kaiser ACE study (N=8316, response rate=65%). Spanking loaded on the same factor as the physical and emotional abuse items. Additionally, spanking was associated with increased odds of suicide attempts (Adjusted Odds Ratios (AOR)=1.37; 95% CI=1.02 to1.86), moderate to heavy drinking (AOR)=1.23; 95% CI=1.07 to 1.41), and the use of street drugs (AOR)=1.32; 95% CI=1.4 to 1.52) in adulthood over and above experiencing physical and emotional abuse. This indicates spanking accounts for additional model variance and improves our understanding of these outcomes. Thus, spanking is empirically similar to physical and emotional abuse and including spanking with abuse adds to our understanding of these mental health problems. Spanking should also be considered an ACE and addressed in efforts to prevent violence.

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  1. Afifi, T.O., Mota, N., Sareen, J. & MacMillan, H. (under review). The relationship between harsh physical punishment of children and further violence in childhood and adulthood.

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Afifi, T. O., Ford, D., Gershoff, E. T., Merrick, M., Grogan-Kaylor, A., Ports, K. A., MacMillan, H. L., Holden, G. W., Taylor, C. A., Lee, S. J., & Peters Bennett, R.
Affiliations
  • University of Manitoba (CA)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • McMaster University (CA)
  • Southern Methodist University (US)
  • Tulane University (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
Afifi, Tracie O.
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Venue
Child Abuse & Neglect
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-09
Volume
71
Pages
24-31
ISSN
0145-2134 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.01.014
PMC
PMC7983058
OpenAlex
W2580781680
Cited by
246
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 9
FWCI
31.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • Child Abuse & Neglect (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD042849)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
Keywords
spanking, adverse childhood experiences, physical abuse, emotional abuse, adult mental health, suicide attempts, heavy drinking, street drug use, depressive affect, child abuse, violence prevention
MeSH terms
Physical Abuse, Adult, Alcoholism, Mental Disorders, Child, Child Abuse, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Manitoba, Risk Factors, Statistics as Topic, Suicide, Attempted, Odds Ratio, Substance-Related Disorders

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