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Parenting Attitudes and Infant Spanking: The Influence of Childhood Experiences
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OBJECTIVES: To assess associations among maternal childhood experiences and subsequent parenting attitudes and use of infant spanking (IS), and determine if attitudes mediate the association between physical abuse exposure and IS. METHODS: We performed a prospective study of women who received prenatal care at community health centers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sociodemographic characteristics, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), attitudes toward corporal punishment (CP), and IS use were assessed via face-to-face interviews, conducted at the first prenatal care visit, 3 months postpartum, and 11 months postpartum. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 1265 mostly black, low-income women. Nineteen percent of the participants valued CP as a means of discipline, and 14% reported IS use. Mothers exposed to childhood physical abuse and verbal hostility were more likely to report IS use than those not exposed (16% vs 10%, P = .002; 17% vs 12%, P = .02, respectively). In the adjusted analyses, maternal exposure to physical abuse, other ACEs, and valuing CP were independently associated with IS use. Attitudes that value CP did not mediate these associations. CONCLUSIONS: Mothers who had childhood experiences of violence were more likely to use IS than mothers without such experiences. Intergenerational transmission of CP was evident. Mothers who had experienced physical abuse as a child, when compared to those who had not, were 1.5 times more likely to use IS. Child discipline attitudes and maternal childhood experiences should be discussed early in parenting in order to prevent IS use, particularly among at-risk mothers.
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“Several studies document a dose response in which multiple types of childhood victimization and/or repeated instances of maltreatment were associated with the greatest risk of adult perpetration”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chung, E. K., Mathew, L., Rothkopf, A. C., Elo, I. T., Coyne, J. C., & Culhane, J. F.
- Affiliations
- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (US)
- Drexel University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Venue
- Pediatrics
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Published
- 2009-08-01
- Volume
- 124
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e278-e286
- ISSN
- 0031-4005 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-4275
- PMC
- PMC3760718
- OpenAlex
- W2130031838
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- PEDIATRICS (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (TS-286-14/14)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD036462, 1-RO1-HD36462-01A1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Keywords
- corporal punishment, parenting attitudes, adverse childhood experiences, child physical abuse, verbal aggression, intergenerational transmission, maternal discipline, prenatal care, postpartum women
- MeSH terms
- Aggression, Attitude, Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Infant, Mothers, Poverty, Pregnancy, Punishment, Risk Factors, Philadelphia, Parenting, Domestic Violence
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