Adolescents at Risk of Delinquency. The Role of Parental Control, Trust, and Disclosure

Melotti, Giannino; Potì, Silvia; Gianesini, Giovanna; Brighi, Antonella

doi:10.1080/01639625.2017.1286172

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“…1083). Even more, without a good parent-child relationship, children may perceive strong parental behavioral control as intrusive and gain less positive influence or even negative influence from parental behavioral control [35,41]. Thus, our findings help draw further attention to the need for including parent-child relationships when investigating parental control.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Indeed, open parent-child communication and more adolescent self-disclosure were associated with less adolescent delinquent behavior [2,40]. In addition, without a good parent-child relationship indicated by trust and communication, parental behavioral control could even harm adolescent development and increase delinquent behavior [41]. Given the unique role played by parent-child relationship in reducing adolescent delinquent behavior, it is important to involve it when investigating the influence of parental control.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, many studies did not separate maternal and paternal parenting. Instead, most studies just considered overall parenting indexed by children’s perceptions of control, trust or support from their parents [1,41,46]. Such an undifferentiated investigation of parental impacts is unable to delineate the complex dynamics and differences between father-child and mother-child dyads [47].…”

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Paternal and Maternal Influence on Delinquency among Early Adolescents in Hong Kong

Shek

Zhu

2019

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Objective: The aim was to examine the effects of parental behaviors and the parent-child relationship on delinquency levels as well as growth rates among early adolescents, and to explore the cross-sectional and longitudinal influence of fathers and mothers. Method: The study used and analyzed data collected at Waves 1–3 (N = 2669, age 12.56 ± 0.71 years at Wave 1) in a six-year research project. Results: While both parents’ behavioral control significantly predicted a lower initial level of delinquency, only higher behavioral control of fathers predicted a fast increase in delinquency. In contrast, parental psychological control did not serve as significant predictors in the individual growth curve model. Besides, relationships of father-child and mother-child dyads negatively predicted the initial level of delinquency but not the rate of change in adolescent delinquency. When all factors were investigated simultaneously, fathers’ behavioral control and the relationship between mother and child were robust cross-sectional predictors, whereas only the latter was a stable longitudinal predictor of adolescent delinquency. Conclusions: Parenting and the parent-child relationship are predictors of adolescent delinquency. It is necessary to differentiate between: (1) adolescent delinquency level and its change rate over time; (2) different aspects of parent-child dyadic factors; and (3) paternal and maternal factors.

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Paternal and Maternal Influence on Delinquency among Early Adolescents in Hong Kong

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Zhu

2019

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“…The role of the family has been considered in many studies, both as a predictor and as a mediator of adolescents’ use of the Internet. The quality of the affective relationship with parents (Li, 2007) and parental monitoring of young people’s activities online have been found to be inversely associated with CBP (Mesch, 2009; Wade and Beran, 2011; Brighi et al, 2012a; Guarini et al, 2013; Guo, 2016; Melotti et al, 2018; Baldry et al, 2019; Zych et al, 2019). The systematic review of 154 studies by Nocentini et al (2018) highlighted that parental supervision and monitoring were protective factors for cyberbullying, while the role of overprotective parents was not consistent across studies.…”

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Young, Bullying, and Connected. Common Pathways to Cyberbullying and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescence

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Cyberbullying perpetration (CBP) and problematic Internet use (PIU) are the most studied risky online activities for adolescents in the current generation. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between CBP and PIU. Still lacking is a clear understanding of common or differentiated risk and protective pathways for adolescents interacting in the cyber world. The aim of this study was to understand the role of individual (emotional symptoms) and environmental variables (parental monitoring) underpinning both CBP and PIU, with time spent online as a mediator of these factors. Furthermore, we investigated gender and school level differences in these dynamics. A questionnaire was filled in by 3,602 students from Italian Lower Secondary Schools and Upper Secondary Schools. Structural equation modeling was used to test the effects of emotional symptoms and parental monitoring on CBP and PIU mediated by time spent online, controlling for school level. In addition, the model was implemented for girls and boys, respectively. Negative emotional symptoms and low levels of parental monitoring were risk factors for both CBP and PIU, and their effect was mediated by the time spent online. In addition, parental monitoring highlighted the strongest total effect on both CBP and PIU. Risk and protective pathways were similar in girls and boys across Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary Schools, although there were some slight differences. CBP and PIU are the outcomes of an interplay between risk factors in the individual and environmental systems. The results highlight the need to design interventions to reduce emotional symptoms among adolescents, to support parental monitoring, and to regulate the time spent online by adolescents in order to prevent risky online activities.

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“…Despite a lack of consensus on the origins of parental knowledge, it served as a model of parental control in the current study. A measure of parental support was also included in the analysis given its apparent role in protecting youth against negative peer influence (Deutsch, Crockett, Wolff, & Russell, 2012; Melotti, Potì, Gianesini, & Brighi, 2018; Walters, 2020). For the purposes of this study, parental support was defined as a sense that the child can count on his or her parents to support them, listen to them, and help them when appropriate.…”

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Moderating the bullying perpetration–delinquency relationship with parental support and knowledge: A prospective analysis of middle school students

Walters

Kremser

Runell

2020

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The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether parental support and knowledge moderate the relationship between bullying perpetration and delinquency. A sample of 305 middle school students (141 boys, 164 girls; 10–12 years of age) served as participants in this study. The research hypothesis predicted that parental support and knowledge would moderate the prospective bullying–delinquency relationship. Testing this hypothesis with least squares regression parametric coefficients and percentile bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals, parental support received full support and parental knowledge no support as factors potentially capable of reducing risk for future delinquency by interacting with prior bullying perpetration. Whereas parental support decreased the odds of high bullying boys engaging in future delinquency—an outcome consistent with the view that parenting can serve a protective function against future offending by neutralizing the risk effect of bullying—parental knowledge failed to reduce future delinquency in children who bullied, although it did have a direct ameliorative effect on future delinquency. The protective effect was strongest when parental support was high and parental knowledge low, whereas the risk effect was strongest when parental support was low and parental knowledge was medium to high. These results suggest that protective and risk effects are limited to certain combinations of protective and risk factors.

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Adolescents at Risk of Delinquency. The Role of Parental Control, Trust, and Disclosure

Cited by 21 publications

References 45 publications

Paternal and Maternal Influence on Delinquency among Early Adolescents in Hong Kong

Paternal and Maternal Influence on Delinquency among Early Adolescents in Hong Kong

Young, Bullying, and Connected. Common Pathways to Cyberbullying and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescence

Moderating the bullying perpetration–delinquency relationship with parental support and knowledge: A prospective analysis of middle school students

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