But I Trust My Teen : Parents' Attitudes and Response to a Parental Monitoring Intervention

Joint Authors

Metzger, Aaron
Cottrell, Lesley A.
Lilly, Christa L.

Source

AIDS Research and Treatment

Issue

Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-10, 10 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2012-06-07

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

10

Main Subjects

Diseases
Medicine

Abstract EN

Parental knowledge gained from monitoring activities protects against adolescent risk involvement.

Parental monitoring approaches are varied and may be modified with successful interventions but not all parents or adolescents respond to monitoring programs the same way.

339 parent-adolescent dyads randomized to receive a parental monitoring intervention and 169 parent-adolescent dyads in the control group were followed for one year over four measurement periods.

Parent attitudes about the usefulness of monitoring, the importance of trust and respecting their teens’ privacy, and the appropriateness of adolescent risk-taking behavior and experimentation were examined as predictors of longitudinal change in parental monitoring and open communication.

Similar effects were found in both the intervention and control group models regarding open communication.

Parental attitudes impacted longitudinal patterns of teen-reported parent monitoring, and these patterns differed across experimental groups.

In the intervention group, parents’ beliefs about the importance of trust and privacy were associated with a steeper decline in monitoring across time.

Finally, parents’ attitudes about the normative nature of teen experimentation were associated with a quadratic parental monitoring time trend in the intervention but not the control group.

These findings suggest that parental attitudes may impact how families respond to an adolescent risk intervention.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Metzger, Aaron& Lilly, Christa L.& Cottrell, Lesley A.. 2012. But I Trust My Teen : Parents' Attitudes and Response to a Parental Monitoring Intervention. AIDS Research and Treatment،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468819

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Metzger, Aaron…[et al.]. But I Trust My Teen : Parents' Attitudes and Response to a Parental Monitoring Intervention. AIDS Research and Treatment No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468819

American Medical Association (AMA)

Metzger, Aaron& Lilly, Christa L.& Cottrell, Lesley A.. But I Trust My Teen : Parents' Attitudes and Response to a Parental Monitoring Intervention. AIDS Research and Treatment. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468819

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-468819