Factors that Influence Chinese Parents' Intentions to Use Physical Violence to Discipline Their Preschool Children.

ABSTRACT: This study explored factors affecting parents' intentions to use physical violence (PV) to discipline their children in the future. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) guided selection of variables. A sample of 1337 preschool children's parents from nine kindergartens located in a county of Henan Province, China were selected by stratified random cluster sampling. Data on parents' attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control over PV, intentions to engage in PV to discipline their preschool children in the future, self-reported PV behavior toward their children during the past three months, and demographic characteristics were collected via a paper-based questionnaire. Multivariable logistic regression analyses examined putative predictors of parents' intentions to use phy

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7084770 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature