Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Five Disciplinary Techniques on Subsequent Externalizing Behavior Problems

Robert E. Larzelere; Sada J. Knowles; Carla Adkison-Johnson; Ronald B. Cox; Hua Lin; Jelani Mandara

doi:10.1080/01494929.2023.2199732

Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Five Disciplinary Techniques on Subsequent Externalizing Behavior Problems

Robert E. Larzelere
, Sada J. Knowles
, Carla Adkison-Johnson
, Ronald B. Cox
, Hua Lin
, Jelani Mandara

Early Childhood, Special Education, and Counselor Education

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Abstract

To identify disciplinary alternatives to replace spanking, this study investigated ethnic differences in the associations of five disciplinary techniques with subsequent externalizing behavior problems in a national sample of 7- to 11-year-olds with ANCOVAs and difference-score analyses. Most techniques led to significant reductions in externalizing problems for African–Americans or Hispanics, but only after overcoming known biases in ANCOVA and not for other European–Americans. Privilege removal had the most significantly effective results, followed by grounding. Sending children to their room and spanking significantly reduced externalizing problems only in one or two analyses for African–Americans, whereas removing children’s allowance was significantly effective in one overall analysis. Parenting research needs to distinguish between more vs. less effective use of all disciplinary techniques across multiple situational and cultural contexts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	523-548
Number of pages	26
Journal	Marriage and Family Review
Volume	59
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2023.2199732
State	Published - 2023

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We gratefully acknowledge funding for this research from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (#5-R03HD107307) and the Oklahoma State Foundation through the Parenting Research Professorship.

Funders	Funder number
Oklahoma State Foundation
NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research	5-R03HD107307

Keywords

African–Americans
causal inference
externalizing behavior problems
Hispanics
privilege removal
spanking
timeout

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Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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