Age as a Curvilinear Moderator for Parental Solicitation and Adolescent Risk Behavior

Drozdova, Anna D.; Clough, Isabelle M.; Thomas, Ann

doi:10.1007/s10826-022-02494-9

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“…Likewise, strict rules about a teenager leaving the home unsupervised might be appropriate for a family living in a disadvantaged, dangerous neighborhood but less appropriate for a family living elsewhere (Deater-Deckard & Dodge, 1997). Many studies have shown that the nature or efficacy of parental monitoring can vary by child, family, and environmental characteristics such as age (e.g., Drozdova et al, 2023) , racial or ethnic identity (e.g., Bumpus & Rodgers, 2009) , socioeconomic status (e.g., Rekker et al, 2017) , neighborhood safety (e.g., Skinner et al, 2014) , family structure (e.g., Padilla-Walker et al, 2011) , or parent-child relationship quality (e.g., Keijsers et al, 2009) . In our formulation, these child, family, and environmental characteristics should inform our evaluations of monitoring behaviors, as explained in Section 4.6.3.…”

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What is parental monitoring?

Pelham,

Racz,

Davis

et al. 2023

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Parental monitoring is a construct of longstanding interest in multiple fields—but what is it? In the first part of this paper, we review how the published literature has defined and operationalized parental monitoring. We analyze the theoretical definitions offered in 26 seminal articles and the conceptual content of 281 items from rating scales used to measure monitoring. We find that the monitoring construct has been defined indirectly, capaciously, and inconsistently and been measured using instruments that vary widely in conceptual content. Thus, what is today regarded as a single, unified literature on parental monitoring is more accurately regarded as a complex set of literatures–each one theorizing about and measuring a different amalgam of concepts. In the second part of this paper, we propose a new formulation of the monitoring construct intended to remedy this situation. We define parental monitoring as the set of all behaviors performed by caregivers to gather information about youths’ activities and life. We then develop a taxonomy identifying 5 distinct types of monitoring behaviors, each of which varies along 5 dimensions (performer, target, frequency, context, style). We position parental monitoring as one element within the broader parent-youth monitoring process: the continuous, dyadic interplay between caregivers and youth as they navigate caregivers attempts' to monitor youth. We argue that conceptualizing parental monitoring as a set of behaviors performed only by parents, rather than as a capacious, dyadic construct, will enable more rigorous and impactful science.

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