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Author: Danelia, Ketevan
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1. Larzelere, Robert E.
Cox, Ronald B. Jr.
Danelia, Ketevan
Mandara, Jelani
Do Child Outcomes of All Disciplinary Enforcements Vary By Ethnicity?
Presented: Little Rock, AR, Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations, November 2008
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Discipline; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parents, Behavior; Punishment, Corporal

The association of spanking with externalizing behavior problems varies by ethnicity in many studies comparing Black and White Americans. This study investigates whether the outcomes of other disciplinary enforcements also varies by ethnicity in 7- to 11-year-olds. Ethnic interactions were found for spanking, privilege removal, grounding, and, marginally, for sending children to their room. The significant simple effects were never detrimental for Hispanics or Blacks and never beneficial for Whites. At these ages, privilege removal appeared effective except for Whites and grounding was effective for Hispanics. Spanking and sending children to their room showed opposite effects for Blacks and Whites. This study uses data from two waves (1996 & 1998) of the well-known National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The children were 7.5 to 11.4 years olds in 1996 and included 53% boys. The NLSY oversampled ethnic minorities, yielding 22% Hispanic-Americans (HAs), 27% African-Americans (AAs), and 51% European-Americans (EAs). The sample size was 868 for most analyses after dropping cases with missing data.
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Larzelere, Robert E., Ronald B. Jr. Cox, Ketevan Danelia and Jelani Mandara. "Do Child Outcomes of All Disciplinary Enforcements Vary By Ethnicity?." Presented: Little Rock, AR, Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations, November 2008.