Relationship of Corporal Punishment and Student’s Behavior of Secondary School Students of Quetta City

Abstract

Corporal/Physical punishment exercises in secondary level school students have negative associations with the behavior patterns of the students. Corporal punishment exercises not only affect the student's social life but also badly affect their professional life, these negative impacts on their behavior manage to the authorities whom the students are working outside the school and create hurdles in achieving their educational goals. For this purpose descriptive type of research was conducted. This research was correlational in nature. The population for this research study was taken from all the secondary boys' and girls' schools of Quetta city, Quetta District. A sample of 200 students was taken to find out the results of the study. A questionnaire was designed to collect data as a tool for the research study. There is a moderate negative relationship between Corporal/Physical punishment and students' behavior in secondary schools. The students who received corporal punishment had a negative impact on their behavior than those who didn’t receive any type of punishment.