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This research focused on finding the impact of Corporal punishment on personality development of students at secondary level and also to explore the student’s view of corporal punishment. Correlational study design was used to analyze the variables. For data collection, different Public schools of district Peshawar, khyber pakhtunkhwa (kpk) were approached. The research variables were linked to find out the relationship with a total sample of 200 secondary school students, including equal no of boys and girls, between ages 10 to 16 years (from class 6 to 10). For the purpose of data collection, all the students were given Corporal punishment questionnaire and big five personality questionnaire and data were collected through Random sampling technique. Findings indicated negative correlation between Corporal Punishment and Extraversion -.348** which shows positive correlation between Corporal punishment and introversion traits. Whereas up to .470** positive relation was found between Corporal Punishment and Emotional Instability. Findings also indicated positive relation between corporal punishment and Conscientiousness .073. Thus in conclusion findings of the research showed that corporal punishment has negative effects on development of extroversion abilities. Furthermore, the implications of corporal punishment were found to cause emotional instability and conscientiousness in school children.

Keywords: Corporal Punishment, Emotional Instability, Conscientiousness, Introvert, Extrovert.