The family, as the primary instance of socialization, plays a key role in nurturing values and attitudes. Based on this notion, this paper looks at how parental corporal punishment in childhood and adolescence, as an expression of a strict, authoritarian upbringing, can influence punitiveness later in life. The results of a representative German sample using multivariate analyses show that individuals who were physically punished or abused by their parents during childhood or adolescence are more punitive than non-victims of parental violence. Based on these findings, the question of whether changing parenting styles might have implications at the macro-level of punitiveness is addressed. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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Kemme, S., Hanslmaier, M., & Pfeiffer, C. (2014). Experience of Parental Corporal Punishment in Childhood and Adolescence and its Effect on Punitiveness. Journal of Family Violence, 29(2), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-013-9564-3
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