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The Relations between Parental Corporal Punishment and Children’s Executive Function: A 3-year Longitudinal Study

NIU Hua1, WANG Meifang2   

  1. 1. College of Marxism, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590;
    2. College of Elementary Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048
  • Published:2024-08-27

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Abstract: To investigated the cumulative effect of both fathers’ and mothers’ corporal punishment on children’s daily executive function and the efficiency of executive function, Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales, Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test were administered to 710 third and fourth grade pupils and their parents in a 3-year longitudinal study. The results showed that: (1) For both mothers and fathers, the results revealed that higher initial levels and slower reduce speed of corporal punishment predicted children’s more ratings of executive function problems; (2) The results also revealed that higher initial levels of corporal punishment predicted children’s better performance-based executive function, whereas the change over time of parental corporal punishment failed to predict children’s better performance-based executive function. Such results revealed that both fathers’ and mothers’ corporal punishment has a cumulative effect on children’s daily executive function but not on the efficiency of children’s executive function. These findings suggest both fathers’ and mothers’ corporal punishment has a cumulative effect on children’s daily cognitive function.

Key words: parental corporal punishment, children’s executive function, cumulative effect

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