Retrospektywna ocena doświadczania kar fizycznych w dzieciństwie a wzorce gotowości do agresji u młodych dorosłych
Retrospective evaluation of corporal punishment experienced in childhood and patterns of readiness for aggression in young adults

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study was to define the role of corporal punishment experienced in childhood in the development of readiness for interpersonal aggression. 173 young adults assessed retrospectively if and how often they, as children, experienced the four following forms of corporal punishment: grabbing, spanking, pulling an ear or forcing to knee, and belting. Readiness for aggression was measured by The Readiness for Interpersonal Aggression Inventory, which enables to assess three distinct, intrapsychic mechanisms regulating aggressive acts: the emotional-impulsive readiness, the habitual-cognitive readiness and the personality-immanent readiness. The results show that corporal punishment used by fathers is a positive, significant predictor of all three patterns of readiness for interpersonal aggression in sons and daughters. No relation was found between corporal punishment by mothers and readiness for aggression of children, despite the fact that mothers used corporal punishment toward sons and daughters as frequent as fathers.

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