Perceived parental monitoring and health risk behaviors among urban low-income African-American children and adolescents

Li, Xiaoming; Feigelman, Susan; Stanton, Bonita

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(99)00077-4

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“…The median age of the participants was 16 (range [14][15][16][17][18][19] years, and the median age of sexual initiation was 14 (range …”

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“…Pre-testing and test-retest of the Malay translated version was undertaken, and it was found to be compatible with (1 = 'never' and 5 = 'always') assesses an adolescent's perception of their parents' supervision, and respondents were classified as having low or high parental monitoring perception. (15,16) This scale was found to be reliable, with a Cronbach's α value of 0.84 following evaluation. Permission to use this scale was granted by Professor Steven Small from the University of Wisconsin.…”

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Determinants of sexual intercourse initiation among incarcerated adolescents: a mixed-method study

Daliana¹,

Farid²,

Dahlui³

et al. 2013

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In general, adolescents are at a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). (4,5) Studies conducted in different parts of the world have shown that adolescents who engage in sexual activity early are at higher risk of its consequences. One study in the United States found that an 18-year-old whose first intercourse occurred at the age of 13 years was more than twice as likely to have an STI than an 18-year-old whose first intercourse occurred at the age of 17 years (odds ratio [OR] 2.25; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.42-3.59). (6) Similarly, in China, men who initiated sex at an early age were found to be at a higher risk of contracting STIs than late initiators (OR 26.13; 95% CI 2.94-232.09).

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“…The median age of the participants was 16 (range [14][15][16][17][18][19] years, and the median age of sexual initiation was 14 (range …”

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Section: E Th O Dsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Determinants of sexual intercourse initiation among incarcerated adolescents: a mixed-method study

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Farid²,

Dahlui³

et al. 2013

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“…Also, even though a given risk factor may be related to substance use for both genders, it is important to understand whether there are any differences in the magnitude of such effects for female and male adolescents. For example, while researchers have found that conventional bonds (including high parental involvement and monitoring) are associated with lower levels of substance use during adolescence (Erickson et al, 2000;Reifman et al, 2001), some researchers have reported differences in parental influence on substance use for girls and boys (Jacobson & Crockett, 2000;Li et al, 2000).…”

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Mediators and Moderators of Parental Involvement on Substance Use: A National Study of Adolescents

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“…Instrumental parenting characteristics such as permissiveness and monitoring are also related to teens' sexual experience. Later sexual debut is associated with more parental monitoring, less parental permissiveness, and the presence of household routines and rules (Danziger, 1995;Li et al, 2000;Metzler et al, 1994;Miller et al, 1998Miller et al, , 1999Romer et al, 1994Romer et al, , 1999. Parental monitoring reduces opportunities for early sexual activity by limiting adolescents' exposure to sexual possibility situations (Paikoff, 1995).…”

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“…Parental monitoring reduces opportunities for early sexual activity by limiting adolescents' exposure to sexual possibility situations (Paikoff, 1995). Increased parental monitoring is also linked to reductions in other health-compromising behaviors that often cooccur with risky sex, such as drug and alcohol use (Li et al, 2000;Thomas et al, 2000) and delinquency (Ary et al, 1999;Gorman-Smith et al, 1996). Overly strict parenting and intrusive psychological control, however, have been implicated in earlier sexual debut (Ku et al, 1993;Upchurch et al, 1999).…”

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Tracing the Roots of Early Sexual Debut Among Adolescents in Psychiatric Care

Donenberg¹,

Bryant²,

Emerson³

et al. 2003

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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Objective: To identify the most important social and personal characteristics related to early sexual debut among troubled teenagers. Method:One hundred ninety-eight youths aged 12-19 years were recruited from outpatient mental health clinics and completed self-reports and interviews about their age of sexual debut; family, peer, and partner relationships (e.g., parental hostile control, negative peer influence, need for intimacy); and personal characteristics (e.g., achievement motivation, externalizing problems). Broad-band (externalizing, internalizing) and narrow-band (depression/anxiety, delinquency) psychopathology was assessed with the Youth Self-Report and Child Behavior Checklist.Results: Optimal Data Analysis was used to generate a classification tree model to identify variables associated with whether or not youths initiated oral, vaginal, and/or anal sexual activity before or after age 14. Three social context variables (parental hostile control, negative and positive peer influence) and one personal characteristic (externalizing problems) correctly classified 87.4% of teenagers as initiating sexual activity at ≤14 or >14 years of age. Conclusions:Parental behavior and peer influence were the most important variables associated with the timing of sexual debut. Results support a social-personal framework for understanding sexual risk-taking among adolescents in psychiatric care, and the data offer relatively strong evidence that specific factors could be used to identify troubled teens at risk for early sexual debut. Keywords adolescents; sexual debut; social-personal context; psychiatric careIt has been 20 years since the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed, and despite efforts to curb the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), rates of infection are rising among adolescents. Young people account for 25% of new sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) reported annually, and the number of HIV-infected youths doubles every 14 months (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 1998[CDC], , 2000a. Sexual activity is the primary mechanism of HIV transmission among teens (DiClemente, 1996;Pequagnat and Szapocznik, 2000), with 57% of males and 49% of females infected through sexual contact, but only 8% of males and 11% of females infected through intravenous drug use (CDC, 2000a). Teenagers are initiating sex at earlier ages (CDC, 2000a) NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript debut is associated with higher HIV exposure because it is linked to more frequent sexual intercourse, more lifetime STDs, less consistent contraceptive use, and more sexual partners (Brooks-Gunn and Paikoff, 1993; CDC, 1992;Durbin et al., 1993;Miller et al., 1999). Some youths are at greater risk than others. Teens in psychiatric care, for example, engage in higher rates of sexual risk-taking than their same-age peers (Brown et al., 1997;Donenberg et al., 2001); they initiate sex at earlier ages and report high rates of sex without a condom, sex w...

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Perceived parental monitoring and health risk behaviors among urban low-income African-American children and adolescents

Cited by 289 publications

References 19 publications

Determinants of sexual intercourse initiation among incarcerated adolescents: a mixed-method study

Determinants of sexual intercourse initiation among incarcerated adolescents: a mixed-method study

Mediators and Moderators of Parental Involvement on Substance Use: A National Study of Adolescents

Tracing the Roots of Early Sexual Debut Among Adolescents in Psychiatric Care

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