International Journal of Human Ecology

The Korean Home Economics Association (대한가정학회)
권호 표지

Factors Related to Paternal Disciplinary Practices of U.S. Families

  • Moon, Hyuk-Jun (Department of Child & Family Studies, The Catholic University)
  • Received : 2010.03.30
  • Accepted : 2010.05.19
  • Published : 2010.06.30
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

This study examined the complex process of paternal disciplinary practices and identified the factors related to paternal disciplinary practices in an examination of the effects of cumulative risk factors on the ineffective disciplinary practices of fathers. The subjects for this study consisted of 200 fathers of six-year-old children attending childcare centers in Los Angeles. Self-report questionnaires were used to collect data for the following variables: 1) family background characteristics; 2) child temperament; 3) marital & job satisfaction; 4) quality of life; 5) social support; 6) intergenerational transmission of parenting; and 7) paternal disciplinary practices. Descriptive analysis, zeroorder correlations, multiple regression analyses, and chisquare analyses were used for data description and analysis. This study indicates that the characteristics of the child, father, and contextual factors contribute to paternal disciplinary practices.

Keywords

References

  1. Amato, P. R., & Rejac, S. J. (1994). Contact with non-resident parents, interparental conflict, and children's behavior. Journal of Family Issues, 15, 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X94015002003
  2. Amato, P. R., & Rivera, E. (1999). Paternal involvement and children's behavior. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 375-384. https://doi.org/10.2307/353755
  3. Andrews, F. M., & Withey, S. B. (1976). Social indicator of well-being. New York: Plenum press.
  4. Arnold, D. S., O'Leary, S. G., Wolff, L. S., & Acker, M. M. (1993). The parenting scale: A measure of dysfunctioinal parenting in discipline situations. Psychological Assessment, 5, 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.5.2.137
  5. Bates, J. E. (1980). The concept of difficult temperament. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 26, 299-319.
  6. Belsky, J. (1984). The determinants of parenting: A process model. Child Development, 55, 83-96. https://doi.org/10.2307/1129836
  7. Belsky, J., & Isabella, R. (1988). Maternal, infant, and social-contextual determinants of attachment security. In J. Belsky & T. Neworski (Eds.), Clinical implications of attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum
  8. Berkowitz, L. (1989). Frustration-aggression hypothesis. Examination and refutation. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.106.1.59
  9. Cabrera, N. J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Bradley, R. H., Hofferth, S., & Lamb, M. E. (2000). Fatherhood in the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71(1), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00126
  10. Catron, T. F., & Masters, J. C. (1993). Mothers' and children's conceptualizations of corporal punishment. Child Development, 64, 1815-1828. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131471
  11. Deater-Deckard, K., & Dodge, K. A. (1997). Externalizing behavior problems and discipline revisited: Nonlinear effects and variation by culture, context, and gender. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327965pli0803_1
  12. Dekovic, M., & Janssens, J. M. A. M. (1992). Parents' child-rearing style and child's sociometric status. Developmental Psychology, 28, 925-932. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.28.5.925
  13. Dennis, T. A., Cole, P. M., Zahn-Waxler, C., & Mizuta, I. (2002). Self in context: Autonomy and relatedness in Japanese and U.S. mother-preschooler dyads. Child Development, 73(6), 1803-1817. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00507
  14. Fox, R. L. (1995). Maternal factors related to parenting practices, developmental expectations, and perceptions of child behavior problems. Journal of Generic Psychology, 156, 491-441.
  15. Garcia Coll, C. T. (1990). Developmental outcome of minority infants: A process-oriented look into our beginnings. Child Development, 61, 270-289 https://doi.org/10.2307/1131094
  16. Gelfand, D., & Teti, J. (1990). The effects of maternal depression on children. Clinical Psychology Review, 10, 329-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/0272-7358(90)90065-I
  17. Grusec, J. E., & Goodnow, J. J. (1994). Impact of parental discipline methods on the child's internalization of values: A reconceptualization of current points of view. Developmental Psychology, 30, 4-19. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.30.1.4
  18. Hashima, P. Y., & Amato, P. R. (1994). Poverty, social support and parental behavior. Child Development, 65, 394-403. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131391
  19. Holden, G. W., & Zambarano, R. J. (1992). Passing the rod: Similarities between parents and the young children in orientations toward physical punishment. In I. E. Sigel, A. V. McGillicuddy-DeLisi & J. J. Goodnow (Eds.), Parental belief systems: The psychological consequences for children (pp. 143-172). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  20. Kelley, M. L., & Tseng, H. (1992). Cultural differences in childrearing: A comparison of immigrant Chinese and Caucasian American mothers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 23, 444-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022192234002
  21. Kochanska, G., & Thompson, R. A. (1997). The emergence and development of conscience in toddlerhood and early childhood. In J. E. Grusec & L. Kuczynski (Eds.), Parenting and children's internalization of values: A handbook of contemporary theory (pp. 53-77). New York: Wiley.
  22. Korbin, J. E. (2003). Children, childhoods, and violence. Annual Review of Anthropology, 32, 431-446. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093345
  23. Lamb, M. (Ed.). (1997). The role of the father in child development (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley.
  24. Larzelere, R. E. (2000). Child outcomes of nonabusive and customary physical punishment by parents: An updated literature review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 3, 199-221. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026473020315
  25. Laursen, B., & Collins, W. A. (1994). Interpersonal conflict during adolescence. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.115.2.197
  26. Lytton, H. (1990). Child and parent effects in boy's conduct disorder: A reinterpretation. Developmental Psychology, 26, 683-697. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.26.5.683
  27. Mistry, J., Chaudhuri, J. H., & Diez, V. (2003). Ethnotheories of parenting: At the interface between culture and child development. In R. M. Lerner, D. Wertlieb & F. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of applied developmental science: Vol. 1. Applying developmental science for youth and families: Historical and theoretical foundations (pp. 233-257). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  28. Nye, E., Carlson, J., & Garrett, G. (1970). Family size, interaction, affect, and stress. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 32, 216-222. https://doi.org/10.2307/350127
  29. Power, T. G., & Chapieski, M. L. (1986). Child rearing and impulse control in toddlers: A naturalistic investigation. Developmental Psychology, 22, 272-275.
  30. Rao, N., McHale, J. P., & Pearson, E. (2003). Links between socialization goals and child-rearing practices in Chinese and Indian mothers. Infant and Child Development, 12, 475-492. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.341
  31. Rauh, V. A., Wasserman, G. A., & Brunelli, S. A. (1990). Determinants of maternal child-rearing attitudes. Journal of American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 375-381. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199005000-00007
  32. Ripoll-Nun ez, K. J., & Rohner, R. P. (2006). Corporal punishment in cross-cultural perspective: Directions for a research agenda. Cross-Cultural Research, 40, 220-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397105284395
  33. Rothbaum, F., Morelli, G., Pott, M., & Liu-Constant, Y. (2000). Immigrant-Chinese and Euro-American parents' physical closeness with young children: Themes of family relatedness. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 340-348.
  34. Rowe, D. C., & Plomin. R. (1977). Temperament in early childhood. Journal of Personal Assessment, 41, 150-156. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4102_5
  35. Simoms, R. L., Beaman, J., Conger, R. D., & Chao, W. (1992). Gender differences in the intergenerational transmission of parenting beliefs. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 54, 823-836. https://doi.org/10.2307/353164
  36. Straus, M. A. (2001). Beating the devil out of them: Corporal punishment in American families and its effects on children (2nd ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
  37. Straus, M. A., Gelles, R. J., & Steinmetz, S. K. (1980). Behind closed doors: Violence in the American family. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
  38. Weiss, R. S. (1974). The provision of social relationships. In Z. Rubin (Ed.), Doing unto others (pp. 17-26). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  39. Zimmerman, M. A., Salem, D. A., & Maton, K. I. (1995). Family structure and psychosocial correlates among urban African-American adolescent males. Child Development, 66, 1598-1613. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131899
  40. Zurabin, S. J. (1988). Child maltreatment and teenage first borns: A relationship mediated by chronic sociodemographic stress?. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 58, 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1988.tb01569.x