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KMID : 0613620210410040225
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Health Social Welfare Review
2021 Volume.41 No. 4 p.225 ~ p.242
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The Line between Abuse and Discipline: Exploring Our Own Definition of Corporal Punishment by Text Mining
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Jung Kyu-Hee
Kim Hee-Song
Kim Jong-Han
Yang Kyung-Moo
Choi In-Suk
Park Jae-Hong
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Abstract
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We investigated the boundary between child physical abuse and reasonable child discipline. To determine that boundary, we asked participants to write the criteria they used to administer corporal punishment, as well as their perceptions of the criteria used by other parents. To analyze the data, we used text mining techniques.
The results revealed that the two sets of criteria differed according to multiple factors, including the parent, the child, the cause, the type, and the expected results of the punishment. The participants believed that corporal punishment was an acceptable method of discipline only if it was administered according to a clear and mutually understood rule. Without such a rule, however, and if the child was made to be fearful, the punishment was considered to be abuse. If the punishment stemmed from thoughtful parental reasoning processes, it was considered acceptable discipline, but if it sprang from volatile parental emotions, such as anger, it was considered abuse. It was also considered acceptable discipline if the severity of the punishment was mild; otherwise, it was thought to be abuse. Furthermore, we explored whether positive beliefs about the efficacy of corporal punishment related with agreement/disagreement between the punishment criteria of individual parents and the criteria of other parents. The majority of participants(70%) agreed to the use of corporal punishment as a method of discipline. Their positive belief about corporal punishment was higher when their punishment criteria matched that of other participants. Finally, there was a positive correlation between positive beliefs about corporal punishment and parental stress. These findings showed that success in ending the use of corporal punishment to discipline children depends not only on changing the perceptions of parents on an individual basis, but also on changing the attitudes held by our society as a whole.
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KEYWORD
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Corporal Punishment, Child Abuse, Discipline, Text Mining, Parental Stress
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