Parental Anchoring Scale

Supervision, presence and knowledge: clarifying ‘parental monitoring’ concepts within a model of goal-directed parental action

“…Digital monitoring is also an important sub-category of parental monitoring activity that has implications for control and guidance behaviours. For these reasons, any theoretical or empirical psychological presence, parental knowledge, or parental monitoring research must account for digital monitoring and technological facilitation of virtual presence.15 The vigilant care literature does attempt to address 'why' vigilant care is related to positive behavioural outcomes, but the focus on 'anchoring'(Kahn et al, 2019) does not adequately offer a plausible mechanism (process) but instead provides another variable for analysis, albeit one that is plausibly causally relevant to a process. Plausible mechanisms are essential to answers to 'why' questions.…”