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Perceived parental acceptance-rejection mediates or moderates the relation between corporal punishment and psychological adjustment: Comment on Gershoff et al. (2018).
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- Intergenerational stability in parenting across two generations: A multilevel meta-analytic review.Psychological bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Children's representations of parents account for multifinality in outcomes of parental control: Evidence from two studies.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- An update on the scientific evidenceJournal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2025Article
- The parent's and the child's internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Revisiting the debate on effects of parental power-assertive control in two longitudinal studies: early attachment security as a moderator.Attachment & human development · 2023Article
- Parenting Practices and Adolescents' Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Perceived Maternal and Paternal Acceptance-Rejection and Adolescents' Self-Efficacy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- There is still no evidence that physical punishment is effective or beneficial: Reply to Larzelere, Gunnoe, Ferguson, and Roberts (2019) and Rohner and Melendez-Rhodes (2019).The American psychologistArticle
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Abstract
Researchers and policymakers are engaged in an ongoing debate over the use of corporal punishment and how it potentially leads to short-term and long-term negative developmental consequences for children. In this comment on Gershoff et al. (2018), the authors provide evidence that children's perceptions of parental acceptance-rejection often partially-or even fully-mediate or moderate the reported effects of corporal punishment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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