Table 4.
Predictors of Mother Reporting Less Corporal Punishment than Child: Odds Ratios from Logistic Regression
| Mother reports less corporal punishment than child | ||
|---|---|---|
| Race/ethnicity | ||
| Black | 1.084 | |
| Hispanic | 1.154 | |
| Immigrant | 0.754 | |
| Education | ||
| Less than HS | 1.008 | |
| Some College | 0.960 | |
| College or more | 1.718* | |
| Poverty (FPL) | ||
| ’0–40% | 0.783 | |
| 50–100% | 0.941 | |
| 100–199% | 1.322 | |
| Marital Status (9-Year) | ||
| Cohabiting | 0.751 | |
| Single | 1.044 | |
| Mother characteristics | ||
| Mother age | 0.989 | |
| First birth | 1.056 | |
| Ever depressed | 0.992 | |
| Parenting stress | 1.071** | |
| Child characteristics | ||
| Child age | 0.979 | |
| Low birth weight | 0.974 | |
| Child male | 0.959 | |
| Externalizing behaviors | 1.041*** | |
| Teacher report of Problem behaviors | 1.004 | |
| Risk factors | ||
| Violent neighborhood | 1.155 | |
| Mother uses drugs | 1.059 | |
| Mother alc. | 0.950 | |
| Mother employed | 1.113 | |
|
| ||
| N | 1,180 | |
*
Notes
+
p<.10
*
p<.05
**
p<.01
***
p<.001
Includes city fixed effects