Punishment Enhances Reasoning's Effectiveness as a Disciplinary Response to Toddlers

Three different kinds of analyses investigated the effect of disciplinary reasoning on subsequent misbehavior with 2- and 3-year-olds. The effectiveness of reasoning by itself depended on how often reasoning had been combined with punishment on other occasions. In the longitudinal analyses the large...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of marriage and family 1998-05, Vol.60 (2), p.388-403
Main Authors: Larzelere, Robert E., Sather, Paul R., Schneider, William N., Larson, David B., Pike, Patricia L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Behavior Problems
Child development
Child discipline
Child Rearing
Childrearing Practices
Children
Discipline
Disruptive Behavior
Explanations
Family
Internalization
Longitudinal Studies
Mothers
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting Styles
Parents
Parents & parenting
Personal aggression
Preschool Children
Punishment
Reasoning
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Survival analysis
Toddlers
Young Children
Youth problems
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Three different kinds of analyses investigated the effect of disciplinary reasoning on subsequent misbehavior with 2- and 3-year-olds. The effectiveness of reasoning by itself depended on how often reasoning had been combined with punishment on other occasions. In the longitudinal analyses the largest increase in disruptive behaviors by age 4 occurred when parents used reasoning frequently without ever backing it up with punishment. The largest decrease in disruptive behavior occurred when parents used reasoning frequently but backed it up with punishment when necessary.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.2307/353856