Abstract
Controversy exists with regard to the use of corporal punishment (CP) in childrearing. However, parental aggression toward children is not always physical in nature, and parental disciplinary strategies can also include psychological aggression (PA). Survey data collected from university students were used to examine the impact of aggressive parental discipline strategies experienced in childhood on externalizing problem behaviors in early adulthood. At the bivariate level, both CP and PA in childhood were associated with intimate partner violence perpetration, criminality, and alcohol abuse in early adulthood. In multivariate analyses, childhood CP predicted intimate partner violence perpetration in early adulthood, even after the effects of numerous contextual variables and concurrent protective factors were taken into account. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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