When a wayward child or make mistakes, some parents tend to punish their children by hitting, slapping or the child to be obedient, but both physically and psychologically, as this type of punishment is not good for children. A study also revealed that children were often punished with a driven and slapped tend sickly and obese as adults.
"This study adds to the evidence that physical punishment is closely related to mental and physical condition that is negative," said Tracie Afifi, who led the study from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, as reported by Reuters on Monday (07/15/2013).
Last year, Afifi and her colleagues recently published a study that found a link between childhood beatings and penamparan to the high risk of depression and anxiety symptoms that they feel in the future.
For this latest study, Afifi perform reanalysis of the data they collected in 2004-2005 by the United States Census, involving more than 34,000 adults across America.
Each participant was asked whether their parents or other adults who live at home with participants often pushing, slapping, or hitting them as a form of punishment when the young participants. Participants were also asked to report their current health condition.
1,300 participants admitted getting physical punishment are termed least 'sometimes' in the absence of physical or emotional abuse more extreme. But when compared with participants who never acquire physical punishment as a child, participants were often punished more frequently diagnosed with a chronic disease, at least one type of disease.
Specifically, researchers presented a number of health problems experienced by participants who receive physical punishment as a child such as arthritis (25 percent) and cardiovascular disease (28 percent), although both stated that the findings could have occurred by chance alone.
In addition, participants who never hit or slapped are also more likely to be overweight (31 percent), whereas participants who were obese but did not have a history of physical punishment reached 26 percent.
"Because not every child who is punished by being slapped or pushed not necessarily suffer from physical and mental health disorders. But the pain and inflammation caused by physical punishment, as well as behavioral and psychological responses when struck, can cause long-term problems in children particular child, "said Afifi.
"So this is not a method to discipline the safest. Your child may seem fine, but it could not be true," he added.
