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The Influence of Depression and Employment Status on Maternal Use of Spanking

Klinger, Meghan Shapiro
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1497365137940756

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2017, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
The purpose of this study was to examine whether depression and employment status are predictive of maternal use of spanking. Participants were 248 mothers of 2- to 4-year-old children, recruited from a number of Facebook groups focused on motherhood. Participants anonymously completed self-report measures of depression, beliefs about the effects of maternal employment on children, and spanking. Participants who reported working outside the home for at least 10 months out of the last year (working mothers) reported significantly fewer depression symptoms that mothers who were not employed outside the home (stay at home mothers). Mothers whose employment was congruent with their beliefs reported significantly fewer depression symptoms than mothers whose employment was incongruent with their beliefs. Stay at home mothers were significantly more likely to report the use of spanking than working mothers, but there was no significant difference between the reported depression symptoms of the do spank and do not spank groups. Further analyses were used to further clarify the differences between the working and stay at home mother groups that may account for the difference in the reporting of spanking.
Janet R. Schultz, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Kathleen J. Hart, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nicholas Salsman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
61 p.
Families and Family Life; Psychology
maternal depression; spanking; maternal employment; corporal punishment; maternal discipline; childhood discipline; attitudes toward maternal employment; working mothers; stay at home mothers

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  • Klinger, M. S. (2017). The Influence of Depression and Employment Status on Maternal Use of Spanking [Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1497365137940756

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Klinger, Meghan. The Influence of Depression and Employment Status on Maternal Use of Spanking. 2017. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1497365137940756.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Klinger, Meghan. "The Influence of Depression and Employment Status on Maternal Use of Spanking." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1497365137940756

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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