were trained to observe emotional incidents involving their own toddler-aged children. Reports
of disciplinary encounters were analyzed in terms of the types of discipline used (reasoning,
verbal prohibition, physical coercion, love withdrawal, and combinations thereof) and children’s
responses to that discipline (compliance/ noncompliance and avoidance). The relation between
compliance/ noncompliance and type of misdeed (harm to persons, harm to property, and
lapses of self-control) was also analyzed. Results indicated that love withdrawal combined with
other techniques was most effective in securing children’s compliance and that its
effectiveness was not a function of the type of technique with which it was combined.
Avoidant responses and affective reunification with the parent were more likely to follow love
withdrawal than any other technique. Physical coercion was somewhat less effective than love
withdrawal, while reasoning and verbal prohibition were not at all effective except when both
were combined with physical coercion.
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