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Cumulative Exposure to Harsh Discipline at Home and School on Child Development: Evidence From Ghana.

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Τίτλος: Cumulative Exposure to Harsh Discipline at Home and School on Child Development: Evidence From Ghana.
Συγγραφείς: Do HH; Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA., Fu Y; Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA., Appiah R; College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.; Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK., Avornyo EA; Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana., Aurino E; School of Economics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Wolf S; Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Πηγή: Developmental science [Dev Sci] 2026 Sep; Vol. 29 (5), pp. e70274.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9814574 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1467-7687 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 1363755X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Dev Sci Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, c1998-
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Child Development*/physiology , Punishment*/psychology , Parenting*/psychology, Executive Function/physiology ; Humans ; Ghana ; Child ; Longitudinal Studies ; Schools ; Female ; Male ; Child, Preschool
Περίληψη: Violence against children violates human rights and fundamentally challenges the global objectives outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Children may frequently experience harsh discipline in both homes and schools, two main settings for early learning and development, yet longitudinal evidence on the developmental consequences of exposure to harsh discipline across these two settings remains scarce in Sub-Saharan Africa. Further, the interaction between harsh discipline at home and in school remains underexplored. Drawing on data from a longitudinal study in Ghana, we examine whether repeated exposure to harsh discipline at home and school across three years (which we define as "cumulative exposure") among pre-primary school children aged 5-8 years (N = 663; Mage = 6.94 years). By controlling for baseline outcomes in a value-added design, we estimated the robust associations between cumulative harsh discipline at home and at schools with higher-order cognitive skills, namely academic and executive function. Cumulative harsh discipline at home significantly predicted lower academic skills (𝛽 = -0.045, p < 0.05) but not executive function, while cumulative harsh discipline at school did not statistically significantly predict any skills. Moderation analyses showed that children's experiences of harsh discipline at home were negatively associated with executive function under conditions of low levels of harsh discipline at school. Findings highlight the urgent need for integrated, contextually grounded interventions targeting home and school disciplinary practices to support early learning and development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(© 2026 The Author(s). Developmental Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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Grant Information: grant number 2021-1417-00 Jacobs Foundation; grant number PID2023-150712NA-I00 MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Ghana; Sub‐Saharan Africa; academic skills; executive function; harsh discipline
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260819 Date Completed: 20260819 Latest Revision: 20260822
Update Code: 20260822
PubMed Central ID: PMC13487363
DOI: 10.1111/desc.70274
PMID: 42613931
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE
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ISSN:1467-7687
DOI:10.1111/desc.70274