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This study examined the effects of parental monitoring in order to discover specific ways that their re1ationships with their parents affect ado1escents' delinquent behaviour. Data were taken from the National Survey of Youth 1972, a survey of a representative samp1e of 1395 Americans in the age range 11-18 years. Conditions such as the age and sex of the respondents, their affectiona1 re1ationships with their parents, the composition of their families and their estimates of the de1inquency of their friends all qua1ified the relationship between parental monitoring and their se1f-reported delinquency. In one condition, the generally negative relationship was reversed.