Done by:Sarah Chiok

Jasmine ChongKarryn KamIsabella ong

1. Under what circumstances do parents use corporal punishment to improve their child’s academic result?

2. How often do parents use corporal punishment to improve their child’s academic result?

3. How effective do parents feel the use of corporal punishment is in improving their child’s academic results?

4. What are the other strategies can parents use to improve their child’s academic results?

Research Participants

Questionnaire consists of opened and closed-ended questions.

Results collected from 3 west district centers

Parents aged from 25 to 50 Income level ranges from S$1800-S$6000

68%

32%

YesNo

60%

8%

24%

8%

PositiveNegative ImpactsDisapproveOthers

Table 3: Circumstances in which parents use corporal punishment to improve their child’s academic result

Use of corporal punishment on children

Improve academic performances

Use of corporal punishment on children

Pearson Correlation 1 .013

Sig. (2-tailed) .926

N 50 50

Improve academic performances

Pearson Correlation .013 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .926

N 50 50

Sub-Question 1:

Under what circumstances do parents use corporal punishment to improve their child’s academic result?

Table 4: Frequencies of parents using corporal punishment to improve their child’s academic result

Frequencies of use of corporal

punishment

Improve academic

performancesFrequencies of use of corporal punishment

Pearson Correlation 1 .037

Sig. (2-tailed) .799

N 50 50Improve academic performances

Pearson Correlation .037 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .799

N 50 50

Table 5: Parents’ views of corporal punishment and its effectiveness in improving their child’s academic results

Effectiveness of corporal

punishmentImprove academic

performancesEffectiveness of corporal punishment

Pearson Correlation 1 .225

Sig. (2-tailed) .116

N 50 50

Improve academic performances

Pearson Correlation .225 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .116

N 50 50

30%

26%

18%

26%Taking Away PrivilegesGrounding

Reverse Psychology

Others

Conclusion: Corporal Punishment is still prominent in

the present society- as supported by newspaper article by Sudderuddin (2009) “To cane or not to cane”

Our research has shown that despite accepting views of corporal punishment as a discipline strategy, it may not be parents’ preferred discipline method to improve their child’s academic results.

Discussions

Limitations of the study Only a certain section of the population

used hence results might not give a full insight of the whole population’s views.

There may be a measurement error, as parents who participated in the research may not portray an accurate portrayal of what we tried to measure.

Discussions

Implications for future research

Perhaps a study could be implemented using positive discipline strategies to improve children’s academic performances.

Therefore, we can do a comparative study between this and the future paper to deduce which discipline strategy parents use often.