Psychological Aggression by American Parents: National Data on Prevalence, Chronicity, and Severity

By Murray A. Straus, C. Field. 2003

198 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Terri L. Messman-Moore
2. D. Carr
3. K. Springer
4. Shelley A. Riggs

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2. D. Carr
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Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Childhood Psychological Abuse on Adult Interpersonal Conflict (2007, background): “Shouting at a child, calling a child names, or shaming a child are behaviors also used as disciplinary tactics (Straus & Field, 2003).”
• Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st Century (2010, background): “Mild parental aggression is nearly universal in the United States: 98% of parents of 5-year-olds used psychological aggression (e.g., yelling) to control children’s behavior, and half of parents of teenagers used more extreme forms of psychological aggression (e.g., cursing; Straus & Field, 2003).”
• Harsh Discipline and Child Problem Behaviors: The Roles of Positive Parenting and Gender (2007, background): “Straus and Field (2003) aptly state that decreasing parental physical and verbal harsh discipline may be a crucial step in the primary prevention of child, adolescent and adult mental illness.”