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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aggress Behav. 2008;34(5):497–510. doi: 10.1002/ab.20268

Table 4.

Mean Proportion of Child Reported Discipline to Aggression

Female Male
Physical Aggression
Discipline
6–7 8–9 10–11 6–7 8–9 10–11
Restrictive .35 (.43) .30 (.35) .19 (.24) .27 (.38) .21 (.32) .23 (.42)
Verbal .19 (.28) .25 (.32) .12 (.21) .19 (.29) .35 (.36) .43 (.41)
Punitive .14 (.29) .11 (.27) .14 (.24) .29 (.36) .15 (.27) .04 (.18)
Verbal Aggression
6–7 8–9 10–11 6–7 8–9 10–11
Restrictive .39 (.41) .17 (.30) .00 (.00) .21 (.32) .28 (.39) .12 (.21)
Verbal .24 (.33) .40 (.40) .56 (.43) .22 (.34) .21 (.27) .62 (.41)
Punitive .07 (.16) .07 (.21) .16 (.23) .15 (.27) .19 (.27) .05 (.16)
Indirect Aggression
6–7 8–9 10–11 6–7 8–9 10–11
Restrictive .22 (.37) .11 (.16) .04 (.08) .18 (.31) .15 (.21) .10 (.32)
Verbal .26 (.34) .25 (.35) .40 (.43) .14 (.29) .20 (.23) .41 (.49)
Punitive .07 (.19) .01 (.04) .03 (.06) .12 (.24) .02 (.08) .01 (.03)

Note. N=142 (67 girls, 75 boys). Standard deviations are in parentheses.