Spanking and externalizing problems: Examining within‐subject associations

• Published in: Child development Vol. 92; no. 6; pp. 2595 - 2602
• Main Author: Pritsker, Joshua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2021
• Subjects: Child; Child Development; Child discipline; Corporal punishment; Externalizing problems; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Punishment

This study examined the effects of spanking on externalizing on a within‐subject level, while excluding causally irrelevant between‐subject variance. Results from two longitudinal studies which used participants from the Child Development Project (n = 585) were reanalyzed with a random‐intercept cro...