Spare the rod? The college student perception on corporal punishment

The current study explores college students' perceptions of corporal punishment with a specific focus on how religious affiliation influences attitudes towards corporal punishment. The data is based on a convenience sample of 318 students attending a southern university. All subjects were administered the same IRB-approved survey instrument on-site. The survey included a wide variety of measures including items assessing participants’ religious affiliation, attitudes toward corporal punishment, and demographics. Multivariate logistic regression models were estimated to test the relationship between the independent variables and each dependent variable. The odds of males, non-Whites, Republicans, Protestants, and those previously corporally punished and raised outside the United States believing corporal punishment is acceptable for children under 2, 2-12, and/or 13-17, intending to use corporal punishment, and/or believing corporal punishment is emotionally harmful are greater than the odds of their counterparts.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Rush, Zachary

Contributors dc:contributor

• Policastro, Christina
• Garland, Tammy S.; Crittenden, Courtney A.
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Corporal punishment -- Religious aspects
• Corporal punishment of children

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/645

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1803