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AGE AND MEDIA AS FACTORS IN THE ENDORSEMENT OF CHILDHOOD DISCIPLINE STRATEGIES
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2013
Abstract
Childhood discipline has received considerable empirical attention over the last several decades. The largest proportion of this literature revolves around the use of physical punishment strategies. Other disciplinary techniques such as reasoning with the child have attracted far less consideration from the scientific community. Research has focused primarily on identifying trends in specific discipline strategies. Parental age has been investigated to determine potential generational influences, though these results remain somewhat unclear. Changes in the stimuli used to collect data on discipline may serve to resolve some of the ambiguity. Recent innovations in media delivery provide researchers opportunities to employ stimuli that may have been previously limited by technology and could elicit more accurate responses from participants. The purpose of this study was to determine the impacts of participants' age and media type on responses to child misbehaviors. Participants completed an online, computerbased Parenting Strategies Survey (PSS) which was developed for this study. Two versions of the PSS were developed, one containing five video vignettes and the other containing five equivalent text-only vignettes. Open-ended responses were coded by the type of discipline endorsed in each vignette and compared according to age and media type.
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- Title
- AGE AND MEDIA AS FACTORS IN THE ENDORSEMENT OF CHILDHOOD DISCIPLINE STRATEGIES
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090754206600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida