The Role of Parental Monitoring in Mediating the Link Between Adolescent ADHD Symptoms and Risk-Taking Behavior

Pollak, Yehuda; Poni, Bella; Gershy, Naama; Aran, Adi

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“…In three consecutive studies, we demonstrated that parental knowledge (i.e., "knowing where, how and with whom children spend their time" [13]) mediated the link between ADHD symptoms and different domains of impairment. In the first study, we replicated earlier findings on the mediating influence of parental knowledge on the link between ADHD symptoms and risk-taking behavior (RTB) [16]. Similar to the original study, parental knowledge mediated the association between ADHD symptoms and RTB.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

“…The current study relied on self-report only which might have caused biased (e.g., halo effects) or socially desirable answers. However, for the central construct of this study-parental knowledge-similar response patterns were observed for self-and other report [13], and previous work demonstrating similar results to the current study also relied on self-report [16]. The Resistance to Peer Influence scale (RPI) was specifically developed as a self-report scale with minimal influence of socially desirable responding [50].…”

Section: Strengths and Limitationssupporting

confidence: 63%

“…Low levels of parental knowledge can have severe negative long-term consequences like delinquency and substance use [13,15]. Moreover, a recent study demonstrated that parental knowledge as reported by adolescents mediated the link between ADHD symptoms and general levels of risk-taking behavior (RTB) in adolescents: higher levels of ADHD symptoms were related to lower levels of parental knowledge, which were related to higher engagement in RTB [16]. In this Pollak et al study, other parenting indices like disengaged relationships or behavioral autonomy did not mediate the association between ADHD symptoms and RTB.…”

Section: General Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is in line with several accounts regarding ADHD symptomatology as dimensional rather than categorical (cf. [16]; see [36] for a review), as well as with recent developments that encourage studying psychopathology in general as dimensional (e.g., Research Domain Criteria (RDoC); [37,38]). An additional advantage of recruiting adolescents from the general population is that larger sample sizes can be obtained which are necessary to study the hypothesized mediation effects [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The importance of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptomatology and related domains of impairment

Dekkers

Huizenga

Bult³

et al. 2020

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Parents of children with ADHD experience several difficulties while raising their children and report lower levels of knowledge about their children's life and behaviors. A recent study found that low levels of parental knowledge mediated the association between ADHD symptoms and risk-taking behavior (RTB) in adolescents. The current study aimed to investigate this previous finding further by replicating it, by taking peer influence into account as additional social factor of importance and by extending it and also investigate the role of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptoms and homework problems. Three studies were performed: study 1 (N=234) replicated previous work on parental knowledge mediating the association between ADHD symptoms and RTB, study 2 (pre-registered, N=313) added peer influence, and study 3 (pre-registered, N=315) assessed whether parental knowledge mediated the association between ADHD symptoms and homework behavior. Parental knowledge consistently mediated the association between ADHD symptoms on one hand and RTB and homework problems on the other, and also predicted stronger resistance to peer influence. Because parental knowledge was repeatedly linked to ADHD-related problems, it seems promising to include parental knowledge in treatment of ADHD-related problems in adolescents, by improving the parent-child relationship. Future studies should test more directly how improvement of the parent-child relationship can be used to optimize parental knowledge, which in its turn reduces ADHD-related problems.

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confidence: 63%

Section: General Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: General Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The importance of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptomatology and related domains of impairment

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Huizenga

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et al. 2020

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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“…The significance of the indirect effects was tested via bootstrap analysis. If the 95% bias‐corrected confidence interval for the parameter estimate does not contain zero, mediation is demonstrated to have a statistically significant indirect effect (Pollak, Poni, Gershy, & Aran, ). The results of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test suggest that our dependent variable may not be normally distributed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of financial education on sound personal finance in Korea: Conceptualization of mediation effects of financial literacy across income classes

Son¹,

Park²

2018

Int J Consumer Studies

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This study analyzed the role of financial literacy as a mediator between financial education and sound personal finance to assess how financial education affects the soundness of personal finance. In particular, this study conducted three sets of mediation analyses using data from the 2014 Consumer Empowerment Index survey of the Korea Consumer Agency to verify whether the mediating relationship is valid across different income classes of the Korean population. The results suggest that financial literacy works as a mediator between financial education and sound personal finance in the high‐income class and the middle‐income classes. Therefore, policymakers should consider the limitations of financial education and financial literacy when addressing low‐income consumers.

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The association between risky decision making and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms: A preregistered assessment of need for cognition as underlying mechanism

Zadelaar

Dekkers

Huizenga

2020

Behavioral Decision Making

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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is related to suboptimal decision making in experimental tasks and to real-life risk-taking behavior (RTB) such as substance abuse and unsafe traffic conduct. In this preregistered study, we tested whether these associations are mediated by need for cognition-the extent to which one tends towards, and enjoys, analytical thought. In a large sample of young adults (N = 463, M age = 19.7 years), we tested whether need for cognition mediated the association between self-reported ADHD symptoms on the one hand and decisionmaking strategy complexity on an experimental gambling task and self-reported reallife RTB on the other hand. Preregistered confirmatory analyses indicated first that ADHD symptoms were positively associated with real-life RTB, but the association was not mediated by need for cognition. Second, ADHD symptoms were not related to decision-making strategy complexity, and need for cognition was not a significant mediator. Explorative analyses revealed that (a) need for cognition was associated with higher decision-making accuracy and slower reaction time; (b) need for cognition was related to inattentive but not to hyperactive/impulsive ADHD symptoms; (c) need for cognition was associated with health-related RTB but not interpersonal RTB; and (4) only the association between inattention and health-related RTB was mediated by need for cognition. We conclude that need for cognition is not a mediator in the association between ADHD symptoms and RTB. Additionally, we conclude that neither ADHD symptoms nor need for cognition predict decision-making strategy complexity. Implications for both future research and clinical practice are discussed.

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The Role of Parental Monitoring in Mediating the Link Between Adolescent ADHD Symptoms and Risk-Taking Behavior

Cited by 21 publications

References 45 publications

The importance of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptomatology and related domains of impairment

The importance of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptomatology and related domains of impairment

Effects of financial education on sound personal finance in Korea: Conceptualization of mediation effects of financial literacy across income classes

The association between risky decision making and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms: A preregistered assessment of need for cognition as underlying mechanism

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