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Study explores parents 'negative touch'
Sunday August 05, 2012 06:40:19 PM,
IANS
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Washington: Parents use
'strong arm' methods to control their children in public, much
more than what they say in surveys or demonstrate in lab
experiments, according to a study.
The study, led by Michigan State University psychologist Kathy
Stansbury, found that 23 percent of youngsters received some type
of "negative touch", namely arm pulling, pinching, slapping and
spanking when they failed to comply with a parental request in
restaurants and parks.
"I was very surprised to see what many people consider a socially
undesirable behaviour done by nearly a quarter of the caregivers,"
said Stansbury, associate professor of human development and
family studies at Michigan, according to the journal Behaviour and
Social Issues.
"I have also seen hundreds of kids and their parents in a lab
setting and never once witnessed any of this behaviour," Stansbury
added, according to a Michigan statement.
Stanbury wanted to get a realistic gauge of how often parents use
what she calls positive and negative touch in non-compliance
episodes with their children, in a real-world natural setting,
outside the lab.
A group of university student researchers anonymously observed 106
discipline interactions between caregivers and children aged three
to five in public places and recorded the results.
Stansbury said another surprising finding was that male caregivers
touched the children more during discipline settings than female
caregivers - and the majority of the time it was in a positive
manner.
Positive touch included hugging, tickling and patting. She said
this positive approach contradicts the age-old stereotype of the
father as the parent who lays down the law.
Ultimately, positive touch caused the children to comply more
often, more quickly and with less fussing than negative touch, or
physical punishment, Stansbury said. When negative touch was used,
even when children complied, they often pouted or sulked
afterward, she said.
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