Maternal Discipline and Children's Adjustment: The Role of the Cultural and Situational Context

Maayan Davidov*, Naama Atzaba-Poria

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Abstract

This study examined how the cultural and situational contexts can jointly shape the consequences of discipline strategies. Israeli mothers who grew up in Israel or in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) (overall N = 110) reported regarding their use of psychologically controlling and punitive discipline with their seven-years-old to 10-years-old children, and teachers reported regarding children's behavior problems. We assessed both mothers' overall general use of the discipline strategies, and their use of the same strategies following transgressions in the academic domain, an area which the two groups emphasize to differing degrees. Consistent with hypothesis, controlling discipline in academic situations had more positive consequences in the FSU group compared with the Israeli-origin group. In contrast, and as predicted, cultural group was not a moderator of mothers' overall, general use of the same discipline strategies. The findings illustrate how taking the situation into account can inform examination of the moderating role of cultural group.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-119
Number of pages21
JournalSocial Development
Volume25
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2016

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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords

  • Behavior problems
  • Culture
  • Parents/parenting
  • Socialization

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