Representaciones sociales sobre corrección y castigo en madres estudiantes universitarias.

The objective of the research was to find out the social representations that the mother students of a higher education institution have about correction and punishment. A background check on child abuse made it possible to identify that some cases associated with such event are subsumed under the premise of corrective and punishment actions, placing the mother as the main alleged aggressor. This requires considering the different conditions in which motherhood is exercised. Methodologically, the structural study of social representations, proposed by J.C. Apric, was used. The findings suggest that, although there is a semantic difference between correction and punishment, references related to abuse underlie as a common element. This constitutes an aspect of a cultural nature, which, in association with different risk factors, such as the simultaneity of roles, might increase the risk of negative parenting practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]