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Childhood Adversities and Adult Use of Potentially Injurious Physical Discipline in Japan

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This study examined the intergenerational continuity of potentially injurious physical discipline of children in a community sample from Japan and the confounding effects of childhood adversities on the continuity. Using the data from the World Mental Health Japan Survey (n = 1186), we found that experience of physical discipline as children was significantly associated with the use of physical discipline as parents independent of other childhood adversities. This association was also independent of the respondents’ mental disorders and household income. No significant gender differences were found in the associations between childhood physical discipline and adult perpetration. The current study on Japan provided empirical support consistent with results found in other countries regarding the intergenerational transmission of child physical abuse.

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The WMH-J 2002–2006 Survey Group members other than those listed in the author byline are as follows: Yutaka Ono, MD (Health Center, Keio University), Yoshibumi Nakane, MD (Division of Human Sociology, Nagasaki International University Graduate School), Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, MPH, FFPH (Department of Public Health, Jichi Medical School), Akira Fukao, MD (Department of Public Health, Yamagata University, Graduate School of Medical Science), Itsuko Horiguchi, PhD (Department of Public Health, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine), Hisateru Tachimori, PhD (National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry), Noboru Iwata, PhD (Department of Clinical Psychology, Hiroshima International University), Hidenori Uda, MD (Director General of the Health, Social Welfare, and Environmental Department, Osumi Regional Promotion Bureau, Kagoshima Prefecture), Hideyuki Nakane, MD (Division of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences), Makoto Watanabe, MD, PhD (Department of Preventive Cardiology, National Cardiovascular Center), Masashi Oorui, MD (Yamagata Prefectural Tsuruoka Hospital), Kazushi Funayama, MD, PhD (Yokohama City Turumi Public Health and Welfare Center), Yoichi Naganuma, PSW, MSc (National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry), Toshiaki A. Furukawa, MD (Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine), Yukihiro Hata, MD (Department of Psychiatry, Field of Social and Behavioral Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences), Masayo Kobayashi, MD (Department of Public Health, Jichi Medical School), Tadayuki Ahiko, MD (Murayama Public Health Center, Yamagata Prefecture), Yuko Yamamoto, PhD (Department of Public Health, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine), Tadashi Takeshima, MD (National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry), Takehiko Kikkawa, MD (Department of Human Well-being, Chubu Gakuin University).

The study was supported by the Grant for Research on Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases and Mental Health from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (H13-SHOGAI-023, H14-TOKUBETSU-026, H16-KOKORO-013, H19-KOKORO-IPPAN-011). We would like to thank staff members, filed coordinators, and interviewers of the WMH Japan 2002–2006 Survey. The WMH Japan 2002–2006 Survey was carried out in conjunction with the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. We also thank the WMH staff for assistance with instrumentation, fieldwork, and data analysis. These activities were supported by the US National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH070884), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, the US Public Health Service (R13-MH066849, R01-MH069864, and R01 DA016558), the Fogarty International Center (FIRCA R01-TW006481), the Pan American Health Organization, Eli Lilly and Company, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. A complete list of WMH publications can be found at http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/publications.php.

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    Maki Umeda & Norito Kawakami

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    Ronald C. Kessler

  3. Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Umeda, M., Kawakami, N., Kessler, R.C. et al. Childhood Adversities and Adult Use of Potentially Injurious Physical Discipline in Japan. J Fam Viol 30, 515–527 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-015-9692-z

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