Impact of corporal punishment on victims' future violent behavior in extracurricular sports.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 500 cases of school-based corporal punishment (CP) are reported annually in Japan. A major feature of CP in Japanese schools is its high prevalence during extracurricular sports activities.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of having suffered a CP-related injury on victims' later use of CP in an athletics environment.

Participants and setting

Participants were 704 undergraduate students of a sports instructor training course who were recruited as volunteers during classes.

Methods

A questionnaire on past experiences of CP and later perpetration of CP was administered to the participants. It was found that 31.3% of the students had experienced CP and 2.3% had perpetrated CP on others. We conducted logistic regressio

SUBMITTER: Takahashi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7495053 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature