Parental Monitoring: Can It Continue to Be Protective Among High-Risk Adolescents?

Shillington, Audrey M.; Lehman, Stephanie Jacobs; Clapp, John D.; Hovell, Melbourne F.; Sipan, Carol L.; Blumberg, Elaine J.

doi:10.1300/j029v15n01_01

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“…While necessarily speculative, the association of parental provision of first alcoholic beverage with current responsible drinking practices points to the possibility that a proportion of parents somehow convey harm minimization messages, for example, through restricting supply, monitoring and supervising alcohol consumption, communicating clear expectations, and the like. This is consistent with the broader literature demonstrating the protective effects of clear parent expectations and limits relating to alcohol [37,38], effective monitoring and supervision [38,39,40,41,42], and maintaining high quality parent-child relationships [26,27]. Ryan et al [43] argue that the empirical literature has provided limited specificity on actionable parent strategies relating to adolescent alcohol use.…”

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How Important Is the Context of an Adolescent’s First Alcoholic Drink? Evidence that Parental Provision May Reduce Later Heavy Episodic Drinking

Kelly¹,

Chan²,

O’Flaherty³

2012

Eur Addict Res

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Objective: This study examined the extent to which a retrospective measure of parental provision of the first alcoholic beverage was related to current heavy episodic drinking and current responsible drinking practices. Sample: 608 14- to 17-year-olds from the 2007 Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey. Measures: Source of first alcoholic beverage (friends/parents/others), source of current alcohol, age of onset of alcohol use, current responsible drinking practices, and proportion of current friends who drink. Results: Binary logistic and multiple regression procedures revealed that parental provision of an adolescent’s first alcoholic beverage predicted lower current heavy episodic drinking, and responsible drinking mediated this association. Discussion: The results suggested that for adolescents who become alcohol users, parental provision of the first drink may reduce subsequent alcohol-related risks compared to introduction to alcohol by friends and other sources. Alcohol-related risks remain significant for adolescents who consume alcohol, independent of who is the provider.

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How Important Is the Context of an Adolescent’s First Alcoholic Drink? Evidence that Parental Provision May Reduce Later Heavy Episodic Drinking

Kelly¹,

Chan²,

O’Flaherty³

2012

Eur Addict Res

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“…For example, parental monitoring is most closely associated with lower levels of problem and delinquent behavior Pettit, Laird, Dodge, Bates, & Criss, 2001;, substance use (Farmer, Sinha, & Gill, 2008;Fletcher, Steinberg, & Williams-Wheeler, 2004;Shillington et al, 2005), vulnerability of adolescents (Small & Kerns, 1993), risk involvement , risky sexual behavior (Borawski, Ievers-Landis, Lovegreen, & Trapl, 2003), and depressive symptoms (Hamza & Willoughby, 2011). From the positive perspective appropriate monitoring sometimes is seen also as one of the features of authoritative parenting style (Gunnoe, Hetherington, & Reiss, 1999).…”

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The Effects of Parental Monitoring on Adolescent and Emerging Adult Contribution: A Longitudinal Examination

Kaniušonytė

2015

IJPS

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The purpose of this study was to explore empirical associations between parental monitoring and for the first time contribution to self, family and community, as outcome of positive youth development, across time among Lithuanian youth. Data for this study are drawn from the first two available waves of an ongoing longitudinal Positive Youth Development research project (POSIDEV), conducted in Lithuania. The sample size for this study was N = 1098 (54.5% girls and 45.5% boys). Measurements used: parental monitoring scale and three-dimensional contribution scale. Results indicated that parental monitoring at Time 1 predicted all components of contribution: to self (β = .37, p<.001), to family (β = .49, p<.001) and to community (β= .23, p<.001) at Time 2. Results also indicated that parental monitoring is more strongly related to contribution in emerging adults group than in adolescents group. To conclude, results of current two-wave study highlighted the importance of the parental monitoring on the outcomes of positive youth development one year later.

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“…As such, over time, researchers have developed a diverse set of variables to conceptualize this variable. Researchers have acknowledged that the definition of parental monitoring has not been uniformly measured and examined (Crouter & Head, 2002; DiClemente et al, 2001; Shillington et al, 2005). Dishion and McMahon’s (1998) narrative review of parental monitoring, for example, recognizing that measurement of parental monitoring has been inconsistent, proposed the more expansive view that monitoring be seen as a constellation of critical parenting practices that involves attention, structuring, and tracking.…”

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Monitoring Matters

Lac

Crano

2009

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Parental monitoring is commonly accredited as an important protective factor against risky adolescent behaviors. In this meta-analytic review, associations of adolescents’ perceptions of parental monitoring with adolescent marijuana use were collected and quantified across 25 independent samples from 17 empirical studies involving 35,367 unique participants. Applying a random-effects model, the average magnitude of effect was r = −.21,. The association was significantly stronger in female-only samples (r = −.31 vs. r = −.19, p < .001) and when parental monitoring was defined purely in terms of parental knowledge of the child’s whereabouts, activities, and relations (r = −.24 vs. r = −.19, p < .05). Cross-sectional (r = −.23) and longitudinal studies (r = −.10) disclosed significant effect sizes. To assess publication bias, a file-drawer analysis indicated that 7,358 studies of nil effect size would be necessary to render the association of parental monitoring and reduced marijuana usage nonsignificant. Theoretical and practical implications of parental monitoring are discussed, especially issues concerning the measurement of parental monitoring and the possible utility of the construct in curtailing marijuana use.

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Parental Monitoring: Can It Continue to Be Protective Among High-Risk Adolescents?

Cited by 48 publications

References 27 publications

How Important Is the Context of an Adolescent’s First Alcoholic Drink? Evidence that Parental Provision May Reduce Later Heavy Episodic Drinking

How Important Is the Context of an Adolescent’s First Alcoholic Drink? Evidence that Parental Provision May Reduce Later Heavy Episodic Drinking

The Effects of Parental Monitoring on Adolescent and Emerging Adult Contribution: A Longitudinal Examination

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