Pediatrics & Therapeutics
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Karin Österman

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• Case Report
  Does Childhood Physical Punishment Predispose to a Victim Personality
  Author(s): Kaj Björkqvist *,Karin Österman Kaj Björkqvist *,Karin Österman
  
  Background: In a previous study, victimization to childhood physical punishment (CPP) was found to be a risk factor for becoming also a victim of school bullying. This finding was replicated and investigated further in two separate studies with adolescents as subjects. Study I: Finnish adolescents (N=1,247, 611 girls, 636 boys; M age=14.0, SD=0.9 yrs) served as subjects in a quantitative self report survey. A relationship was found between CPP and victimization to both traditional bullying and cyber aggression, but also between CPP and perpetration of cyber aggression. The finding prompted the need to include measures of perpetration of traditional school aggression into the study design. Study II: In a follow-up survey (N=620, 296 girls, 324 boys; M age=13.1, SD=1.6 yrs), CPP was found to correlate with victimization to all measured forms .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0665.1000190

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