But a new study published in the journal Parenting: Science and Practice<\/em> suggests that these painful effects of harsh discipline can be moderated by the child\u2019s feelings of being loved by their mother.<\/p>\n The study, conducted among a group of Mexican-American adolescents by Dr Miguelina Germ\u00e1n of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, found that having a loving mother (or \u2018perception of maternal warmth\u2019) protected the youngster from externalizing problems<\/strong> to the extent that, at high levels of maternal warmth, harsh discipline was found to have no correlation with antisocial behaviour.<\/p>\n Where the child\u2019s perception of maternal warmth was lower, it still resulted in a positive relationship between harsh disciplinary practices and later externalising problems.<\/p>\n This would suggest that, as long as the child knows they\u2019re loved, and feels that it is coming from a good place, their experiences of being strictly disciplined is unlikely to result in antisocial behaviour further down the line<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Some evidence suggests that Latino cultural norms \u2013 such as respeto<\/em> (respect) and bien educacion<\/em> (social responsibility) – support the use of harsh and restrictive discipline against children. Attachment theory holds that warm, responsive parenting is the critical factor in producing happy, secure children \u2013 the underlying belief that their parents love them protects them from feeling rejected, even when being harshly disciplined<\/strong>.<\/p>\n One important implication of the research is perhaps the following: the use of harsh parental discipline does not automatically result in antisocial behaviour in the child<\/strong>. The relationship between the two is conditional and subject to other factors. Where harsh disciplinary practices are a cultural norm, there are always other influences at play that can lessen their potential harm on the young child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Taylor & Francis press release via AlphaGalileo: The use of harsh discipline of unwanted behaviour in children has long been controversial. Whether verbal (insults, disparaging remarks, threats) or… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,60],"tags":[133,45,73,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12552,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions\/12552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"child](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/child_frustration.jpg\")
The use of harsh discipline of unwanted behaviour in children has long been controversial. Whether verbal (insults, disparaging remarks, threats) or physical (slapping\/spanking), harsh discipline at all stages of childhood carries a large risk of manifesting antisocial \u2018externalising behaviours\u2019 in the child, including aggression, delinquency or hyperactivity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n