Punishment and discipline behaviour of Swiss parents entitled to education

The punishment-behaviour of parents, its modalities, its antecedents and immediate as well as long term consequences, are analysed in a representative study in collaboration with the Institut Demoscope. It is a replication-study after 12 years. The research works with three different modalities of questioning: estimation of the frequency, analysis of the last punishment episode and giving of standardised hypothetical situations. Suppositions about conditions and consequences of the punishment-behaviour are examined.

Conducted by
Prof. Meinrad Perrez and Dr. Dominik Schoebi

Associates
Lic. Phil. Rukiye Isik, Lic. Phil. Melanie Wight
Dr. Eva-Maria Tschurenev (DemoScope)

Financing
Bundesamt für Sozialversicherung und Lehrstuhl Klinische Psychologie