The Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Bonds, Parental Drug Use, and Self-Control on Adolescent Substance Use

Self-control, attachment, and deviance among Hispanic adolescents

“…The theory proposes that individuals with strong affection and respect for significant others are less likely to be delinquent because they do not wish to incur harm or disapproval from those important to them. For this particular study, and similar to recent studies examining parenting and self-control (see Chapple, Hope, & Whiteford, 2005;Hope & Chapple, 2004), maternal attachment was measured by the strength of adolescents' attachment to their mothers and was created by combining a series of Likert-type responses to ten items ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree" to the following items: "I love my mother," "I respect my mother," "I feel bad when I hurt my mother," "my mother is my friend," "I tend to follow my mother's advice," "my mother wants what is best for me," "I speak to my mother often," "I enjoy living with my mother," "my mother listens to my problems," and "I feel close to my mother." Factor analysis confirmed the measure represented one underlying construct, producing only two eigenvalues greater than 1.00.…”

Childhood Maltreatment, Parental Monitoring, and Self-Control among Homeless Young Adults

“…Although low self-control entirely mediated the effects of discipline on delinquency, it only partially mediated the effects of monitoring, which retained significant relationships with delinquency and arrest. This study and others (Chapple, Hope, & Whiteford, 2005;Vazsonyi & Belliston, 2007;Vazsonyi & Kalnjsek, 2008) indicate that parental attachment/support, discipline, and monitoring are relevant for self-control, but that monitoring in particular has implications for deviant outcomes beyond its relationship with self-control.…”

Risky Sexual Behaviors, Alcohol Use, and Drug Use: A Comparison of Eastern and Western European Adolescents

“…Based on a secondary data analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), studies have found evidence of both direct and indirect family process effects (e.g., monitoring) on both adolescent substance use and risky sexual behaviors [5,6]. Important short-comings in empirical work to date include narrow operationalization and inadequate measurement of key study constructs (e.g., risky sexual behaviors), restricted age range of participants, and incomplete assessments of family process effects on both self-control and measures of health-compromising behaviors.…”