Does Causally Relevant Research Support a Blanket Injunction against the Use of Disciplinary Spanking
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* I wish to acknowledge the invaluable help of the students who worked on this project – most notably Nadia Sorkhabi who trained the raters and together with Ellen Middaugh developed the Manual for the Parent Disciplinary Rating Scale, and Sally Lim for her important contribution to data coding and management. Dr. Elizabeth Owens conducted the data analyses and co-authors the report of this study, which is in the process of peer review. Dr. Owens and myself are grateful to the William T. Grant Foundation who funded our efforts, and to Dr. Robert Larzelere with whom we consulted on substantive and methodological matters.
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