Predictors of Adolescents’ Disclosure to Parents and Perceived Parental Knowledge: Between- and Within-Person Differences

Darling, Nancy; Cumsille, Patricio; Caldwell, Linda L.; Dowdy, Bonnie B.

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“…Parents' active monitoring (i.e., tracking and control) increased disclosure in three studies and had no effects in another [12,14,16,17]. Finally, there is some evidence for adolescents' negative behaviors decreasing the likelihood of disclosure and child disclosure affecting parents' tracking and control [17,18].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The limited studies examining adolescent disclosure suggest it may be increased by authoritative parenting responsive parenting a positive parent-child relationship more leisure time spent with parents and less with peers adolescents' beliefs in the legitimacy of parental authority and trust in their parents parents' positive reactions to adolescent disclosure and adolescents' personality [9,11,13,15,16,[18][19][20][21]. Parents' active monitoring (i.e., tracking and control) increased disclosure in three studies and had no effects in another [12,14,16,17].…”

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confidence: 94%

“…With three exceptions the previous research on how parents know what their children are doing and the importance of child self-disclosure is based on non-US samples [9,14,18]. In addition, the American samples represent highly selected populations sampling from adoption agencies [9], YMCA sports program or snowball sampling to recruit youth in locations frequented by adolescents [14,18].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Importance of Parental Warmth, Support, and Control in Preventing Adolescent Misbehavior

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Parents are often told that better monitoring can prevent adolescents' misbehavior. However, recent research suggests that adolescents' voluntary self-disclosure of behaviors is more important than parents' active attempts to supervise (i.e., track and control) their children in determining adolescent misbehavior. This secondary analysis of a survey administered to students in grades 7, 9, and 11/12 in a diverse community in the northeastern region of the U.S. examines the contribution of various dimensions of parenting (i.e., parental warmth, support, and control) and child disclosure to parental knowledge of their child's activities and whereabouts and child involvement in problem behaviors. The findings, similar for both younger (under 16 years) and older adolescents, suggest that 1) youths' reports of parents' knowledge of their activities and whereabouts (parental knowledge) is significantly associated with truancy, alcohol use, drug use, and delinquency; 2) parental knowledge was determined predominantly by the youth's willingness to disclose; 3) youth's willingness to disclose was predicted by perceived parental warmth and parental support; 4) in addition to indirect effects on risky behaviors (through parental knowledge), a youth's willingness to disclose also had direct effects on grades; and 5) parental support also had direct effects on four of the six risky behaviors independent of youth disclosure while parental warmth had direct effects on grades and delinquency. These findings, together with those of others, suggest that parents may still play a role, albeit indirectly through parental warmth and support, in reducing adolescent misbehaviors.

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“…Along these lines, a positive parentchild relationship is positively related to child disclosure and negatively related to conduct problems (Vieno et al 2009). Similarly, high levels of parental trust (Kerr et al 1999;Smetana and Metzger 2008;Smetana et al 2006), authoritative parenting (Darling et al 2006), engagement in enjoyable family activities Willoughby and Hamza 2011), and parental responsiveness (Smetana 2008;Soenens et al 2006) are strongly linked to high levels of child disclosure. Another way in which parents can promote child disclosure is responding in a positive manner during previous disclosure efforts (Hayes et al 2003(Hayes et al , 2004(Hayes et al , 2007Kerr and Stattin 2000;Tilton-Weaver et al 2010).…”

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The Relationship Between Parental Knowledge and Monitoring and Child and Adolescent Conduct Problems: A 10-Year Update

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McMahon

2011

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Inadequate parental monitoring is widely recognized as a risk factor for the development of child and adolescent conduct problems. However, previous studies examining parental monitoring have largely measured parental knowledge and not the active methods used by parents to track the activities and behavior of their children. The seminal work of Stattin and Kerr (Child Dev 71:1072-1085, 2000; Kerr and Stattin in Dev Psychol 36:366-380, 2000) has challenged the field to reinterpret the construct of parental monitoring, focusing on the active components of this parenting behavior. As a result, this area of research has witnessed a resurgence of activity. The goal of the current paper is to review the evidence regarding the relationship between parental knowledge and monitoring and child and adolescent conduct problems that has accumulated during the past decade. Forty-seven studies published between 2000 and 2010 were identified by searching major databases and bibliographies and were included in this review. This paper will examine the following areas: (a) "parental monitoring" as "parental knowledge"; (b) parental knowledge as driven by child disclosure; (c) the relationship between parental knowledge and monitoring and child and adolescent conduct problems; (d) bidirectional associations between parental knowledge and monitoring and child and adolescent conduct problems; (e) contextual influences on parental knowledge and monitoring; (f) antecedents of parental knowledge and monitoring; (g) clinical implications of research on parental knowledge and monitoring; and (h) limitations of existing research and future directions.

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“…As such, high levels of knowledge indicate that parents are aware of their children's whereabouts, activities, and friends (Hirschi 1969;Patterson et al 1992). Adolescents appear to actively manage the information provided to their parents by avoiding discussions, lying, and leaving important details out of their conversations (Darling et al 2006). Thus, adolescent disclosure of information appears to be the primary proximal source of parents' monitoring knowledge with additional information provided by parents' solicitation of information (from their children, teachers, and other parents), and family rules regarding how and where adolescents are expected to spend their time (Crouter et al 2005;Crouter et al 1999;Stattin and Kerr 2000;Snyder and Patterson 1987;Waizenhofer et al 2004).…”

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Parents’ Monitoring Knowledge Attenuates the Link Between Antisocial Friends and Adolescent Delinquent Behavior

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Developmental trajectories of parents' knowledge of their adolescents' whereabouts and activities were tested as moderators of transactional associations between friends' antisociality and adolescent delinquent behavior. 504 adolescents (50% female) provided annual reports (from ages 12 to 16) of their parents' knowledge and (from ages 13 to 16) their own delinquent behavior and their friends' antisociality. Parents also reported the adolescents' delinquent behavior. Growth mixture modeling was used to identify two sub-groups based on their monitoring knowledge growth trajectories. Adolescents in the sub-group characterized by decreasing levels of parents' knowledge reported more delinquent behavior and more friend antisociality in early adolescence, and reported greater increases in delinquent behavior and friend antisociality from early to middle adolescence compared to adolescents in the sub-group characterized by increasing levels of parents' knowledge. Transactional associations consistent with social influence and social selection processes also were suppressed in the increasing knowledge sub-group as compared to the decreasing knowledge sub-group.

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Predictors of Adolescents’ Disclosure to Parents and Perceived Parental Knowledge: Between- and Within-Person Differences

Cited by 223 publications

References 19 publications

The Importance of Parental Warmth, Support, and Control in Preventing Adolescent Misbehavior

The Importance of Parental Warmth, Support, and Control in Preventing Adolescent Misbehavior

The Relationship Between Parental Knowledge and Monitoring and Child and Adolescent Conduct Problems: A 10-Year Update

Parents’ Monitoring Knowledge Attenuates the Link Between Antisocial Friends and Adolescent Delinquent Behavior

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