Autor(es): Rancheiro, Telma ; Guedes, Maryse ; Verissimo, Manuela
Data: 2023
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/9261
Origem: Repositório do ISPA - Instituto Universitário
Assunto(s): Physical punishment; Parenting beliefs; Child characteristics; Maternal characteristics; Family characteristics; Punição física; Crenças parentais; Características da criança; Características das mães; Características da família
Abstract: Physical punishment is the use of physical force to cause to body pain or discomfort, to correct children’s misbehaviour (Gershoff, 2008) and negatively impacts children’s development (Gershoff, 2002). To overcome limitations in the current state-of-art knowledge in Portugal, this study aimed to describe the maternal reports about the use of different physical punishment practices in the last year and to analyse the predictive role of child, maternal and household characteristics in the use of different physical punishment practices in the last year. A total of 289 Portuguese mothers of children aged 5 to 14 years completed the Escala de Crenças sobre a Punição Física (Machado et al., 2003) and the Inventário de Práticas Educativas Parentais (Machado et al., 2015). According to results, spanking child at the buttocks with the hand and slapping child’s hand, arm, or leg were the most reported punishment practices. Maternal tolerance toward physical punishment was the strongest and most consistent predictor of spanking child at the buttocks with the hand and slapping child’s hand, arm, or leg during the last year. Future cross-cultural studies may continue to explore the most used physical punishment practices and the characteristics that predict their use.
