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The Experience of Foster Care: Relationship between Foster Parent Disciplinary Approaches and Aggression in a Sample of Young Foster Children

Megan Tripp De Robertis

Alan J. Litrownik

San Diego State University

The relationship between disciplinary practices of 70 foster parents (kin and nonkin) and aggression in their 8-year-old foster children was examined. Aggressive behavior was assessed through child and foster parent reports, whereas disciplinary behavior was examined by asking foster parents how they would typically respond to five child misbehaviors. Kinship foster parents (64.8%) were significantly more likely than nonkinship foster parents (30.2%) to report that they would use harsh discipline (p < .01). No significant relationship was found between foster parent reports of child aggression and their reports of disciplinary behavior. However, foster parents who reported they would use harsher discipline were more likely to have children in their care who generated multiple aggressive solutions to social problems (odds ratio = 2.7, p < .01). The evidence suggesting that the disciplinary practices of foster parents may influence children’s social aggression is discussed in relation to future research, policy, and interventions.

Key Words: aggression • foster care • kinship • harsh discipline

Child Maltreatment, Vol. 9, No. 1, 92-102 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1077559503260402
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