Egyptian survey data from 467 parents examines the intergenerational transmission of harsh discipline. The study uses parent recollections of maternal and paternal harsh discipline, self-reported child harsh discipline, and emotion regulation difficulties scores. It includes mediation analyses with bootstrapped samples controlling for parent and child demographics.
Use Cases
- Analyze the association between recollections of maternal harsh discipline and self-reported child harsh discipline scores.
- Examine emotion regulation difficulties as a mediator between parental harsh discipline history and child harsh discipline.
- Investigate the specific role of impulse control difficulties in the link between maternal harsh discipline and child harsh discipline.
- Control for parent age, gender, child age, and intention to parent differently in statistical models of harsh discipline.
Strengths
- Data from 467 Egyptian parents provides a focused sample for studying non-Western contexts.
- Includes validated scales: Recollection of Parental Harsh Discipline Scale, Child Harsh Discipline Scale, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16).
- Mediation analyses are based on 5,000 bootstrapped samples for robust statistical inference.
Limitations
- Sample size of 467 parents may limit statistical power for detecting smaller effect sizes or subgroup analyses.
- Data is cross-sectional, limiting causal inferences about the intergenerational transmission of harsh discipline.
- Relies on self-reported recollections of childhood experiences and current parenting behaviors, which are subject to recall and social desirability biases.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse, author Nour Zaki.
- Collection Method
- Survey data collected from Egyptian parents using standardized psychological scales.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Egypt.