Cultural, human, and social capital as determinants of corporal punishment- Toward an integrated theoretical model

Using the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors construct and test an integrated theoretical model to predict the likelihood of parental use of corporal punishment on children in two-parent families. They show that the use of corporal punishment is primarily deter mined by cultural, human, and social capital that are available to, or hare already been acquired by, parents. Moreover, ordered probit regression ana lyses indicate that the likelihood of corporal punishment can be predicted by additional exogenous factors such as parents ' demographic characteristi cs and the extent of spousal violence. Based on these results, an integrate d, resource-based theory is suggested.