Certainly, but, on the whole, issues of humility are easier dealt with than children learning that your will is only important when you are there to enforce it. It seems intuitively obvious to me that behaviors learned at the threat of force will be absorbed at a more shallow level, and more temporarily, than behaviors encouraged by rewards and explanation. Though, obviously, the latter is harder to instill, it's more likely to hang around and provide a useful cognitive tool in adulthood.

Anecdotally, of the children I knew who were routinely struck by their parents in punishment, they were far more likely to be extremely polite in their parent's presence ('sir' and 'mam'), and all significantly more likely to go try to set something on fire when they weren't. The kids who weren't beaten, if not as well behaved in general, were at least more consistent in their behavior.