INTRODUCTION: Corporal punishment is closely related to physical abuse of @entity1 and is associated with several negative characteristics and experiences in @entity1 and youths. This study examined the relative unique contribution of 6 variables (social support, socioeconomic status, @entity308 , self-efficacy, knowledge of @entity1 development, and history of postpartum @entity308 ) to maternal corporal punishment of @entity1 . METHOD: A sample of 76 mothers was dichotomized into those who never spanked or hit with an object and those who have spanked or hit with an object. The mothers were recruited from a community mental health agency, an urban community center, and a court of common pleas. The measures in the present study were administered prior to mothers' participation in a parent training program. Mothers referred by the court of common pleas were mandated to participate in the parent training program, and the mothers from the community mental health agency and the urban community center volunteered to participate in the parent training program. However, all @entity1 voluntarily completed the research measures. RESULTS: Binary logistic regression identified postpartum @entity308 as the only variable to significantly increase the odds of corporal punishment (odds ratio = 6.307, 95% confidence interval = 1.098-36.214, p = .039). DISCUSSION: The findings demonstrate increased odds of corporal punishment among a high-risk sample of @entity1 with postpartum @entity308 . The generalizability of these findings may be limited to low socioeconomic class and White and African American mothers enrolled in parent-training programs. (PsycINFO Database Record

History of postpartum XXXX and the odds of maternal corporal punishment.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'women', 'children', 'child'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression']
@entity308 :: (MESH:D003866,Disease) :: ['depression']
