Youth and Parental Perceptions of Parental Monitoring and Parent-Adolescent Communication, Youth Depression, and Youth Risk Behaviors

Sun, Yu; Clemens, Rebecca; Yang, Hongmei; Li, Xiaoming; Stanton, Bonita; Deveaux, Lynette; Lunn, Sonya; Cottrell, Lesley; Harris, Colin

doi:10.2224/sbp.2006.34.10.1297

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“…The results of their systematic review found that parental monitoring, parent-child interaction, and child disclosure led to delayed alcohol initiation as well as reduced levels of later drinking [68]. Additional support for the findings of the current systematic review were found in the results of other studies which show that parental monitoring significantly decreases adolescent risk behaviour such as sexual risk behaviours and decreased substance use [26,56,60,67]. Furthermore, parental communication has been found to Unclear.…”

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The Effects of Parental Monitoring and Communication on Adolescent Substance Use and Risky Sexual Activity: A Systematic Review

Ryan¹,

Roman²,

Okwany³

2015

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Aim:The aim of the systematic study was to determine the effect of parenting practices on adolescent risk behaviours such as substance use and sexual risk behaviour.Method: Quantitative research studies were systematically collected from various databases such as Academic Search Complete, MEDLINE (Pubmed), JSTOR, Project Muse and SAGE for the duration of 2003-2013 which was within the 10 year period of relevant literature to the date of study.Results: Findings established that parental monitoring and communication prevented drug initiation, delayed alcohol initiation, and sexual debut, increased alcohol refusal efficacy, and decreased delinquent behaviour and risk taking behaviours in high risk adolescents. Conclusion:This review shows that parental practices play significant protective and promotive roles in managing adolescent risk behaviours.

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The Effects of Parental Monitoring and Communication on Adolescent Substance Use and Risky Sexual Activity: A Systematic Review

Ryan¹,

Roman²,

Okwany³

2015

TOFAMSJ

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“…Conversely, adolescent children had higher scores on issues of conflict within the family. These findings, consistent with other studies may reflect parents' investment in portraying the family ecology in a more positive manner than their children [1,7]. Even though runaway youths consistently report numerous chronic personal and family difficulties that precipitated their running away from parental homes, parents may feel family dynamics improve once the adolescent departs [5].…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Research exploring parent and adolescent relationships in normative and clinical populations suggests that family members often have divergent perspectives [1]. Parents who have invested time and energy in maintaining integrated family relationships are more likely to report fewer family difficulties, whereas adolescents striving for independence and increased separation from parents are more apt to have unenthusiastic opinions of family life and relationships [2,3].…”

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How do Runaway Adolescents and their Parents Perceive the Family? Measurement Invariance in the Family Functioning Scale

Thompson¹

2013

J Child Adolesc Behav

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Exploring perceptual discrepancies and how they affect family life may be particularly relevant when household dynamics have broken down to the point that a child runs away or is forced to leave the home. This study explored the sources of differences between parents' and youths' reports of family functioning and, more generally, illustrates how to perform confirmatory factor analysis methods to purge error due to measurement invariance. Basic concepts and methods that are often needed in social work research are described. Creating uni-dimensional and configurable invariant subscales resulted in improved significance for the Conflict subscale over traditional methods. All other subscales remained significantly different between parents and youths at all levels of invariance. Findings highlight the caution required in using any scale to measure the same construct for two different populations, such as parents and children.

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“…These normative changes might account for the finding that during early adolescence, adolescents tend to view the family in relatively negative ways in comparison to their parents (e.g., Ohannessian and De Los Reyes 2014;Ohannessian et al 2000). In fact, relative to parents' reports, adolescents report lower levels of family satisfaction and family cohesion (Ohannessian et al 2000(Ohannessian et al , 1995, as well as higher levels of communication problems (De Los Reyes et al 2016b;Laird and De Los Reyes 2013;Reynolds et al 2011;Yu et al 2006). Consequently, increased divergence between adolescents' and parents' reports may relate to an increased mastering of adolescent normative developmental tasks.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Discrepancies in Adolescent–Parent Perceptions of the Family and Adolescent Adjustment

Reyes

Ohannessian

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Researchers commonly rely on adolescents' and parents' reports to assess family functioning (e.g., conflict, parental monitoring, parenting practices, relationship quality). Recent work indicates that these reports may vary as to whether they converge or diverge in estimates of family functioning. Further, patterns of converging or diverging reports may yield important information about adolescent adjustment and family functioning. This work is part of a larger literature seeking to understand and interpret multi-informant assessments of psychological phenomena, namely mental health. In fact, recent innovations in conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing multi-informant mental health assessments might meaningfully inform efforts to understand multi-informant assessments of family functioning. Therefore, in this Special Issue we address three aims. First, we provide a guiding framework for using and interpreting multi-informant assessments of family functioning, informed by recent theoretical work focused on using and interpreting multi-informant mental health assessments. Second, we report research on adolescents' and parents' reports of family functioning that leverages the latest methods for measuring and analyzing patterns of convergence and divergence between informants' reports. Third, we report research on measurement invariance and its role in interpreting adolescents' and parents' reports of family functioning. Research and theory reported in this Special Issue have important implications for improving our understanding of the links between multi-informant assessments of family functioning and adolescent adjustment.

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Youth and Parental Perceptions of Parental Monitoring and Parent-Adolescent Communication, Youth Depression, and Youth Risk Behaviors

Cited by 96 publications

References 32 publications

The Effects of Parental Monitoring and Communication on Adolescent Substance Use and Risky Sexual Activity: A Systematic Review

The Effects of Parental Monitoring and Communication on Adolescent Substance Use and Risky Sexual Activity: A Systematic Review

How do Runaway Adolescents and their Parents Perceive the Family? Measurement Invariance in the Family Functioning Scale

Introduction to the Special Issue: Discrepancies in Adolescent–Parent Perceptions of the Family and Adolescent Adjustment

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