| Summary: | Parents may use power-assertion and love-withdrawal strategies to
control children's deviant behaviour. This paper focusses only on
the use of power-assertion. Furthermore It Is limited to the physical
punishment techniques within this strategy.
This paper reveals that there is a range of physical punishment
techniques starting from very mild reprimand to shouting, pinching,
flieklng, smacking, flogging and outright physical torturing. It then
reports a three-part survey on the extent Malaysian parents employ
physical punishment techniques of shouting, pinching, flicking,
smacking and flogging.
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