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The influence of parental monitoring and parent–adolescent communication on Bahamian adolescent risk involvement: A three-year longitudinal examination

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  • Wang, Bo
  • Stanton, Bonita
  • Li, Xiaoming
  • Cottrell, Lesley
  • Deveaux, Lynette
  • Kaljee, Linda

Abstract

The literature suggests that parental monitoring can best be conceptualized and measured through the domains of parental knowledge, youth disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control. Using longitudinal data on 913 grade-six Bahamian students followed over a period of three years, we examined the unique and independent roles of these domains of parental monitoring and parent–adolescent communication in relation to adolescent involvement in delinquency, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors. The results obtained with mixed-effects models indicate that parental knowledge, youth disclosure, and parental control are negatively associated with both delinquency and substance use. Open parent–adolescent communication was associated with decreased sexual risk behavior, whereas problematic parent–adolescent communication was associated with increased sexual risk behavior. The results obtained with path models indicate that youth disclosure is a significant longitudinal predictor of reduced adolescent delinquency and that parental control during early adolescence predicted reduced substance use in middle adolescence. The findings suggest that parental knowledge, youth disclosure and parental control differ in their impacts on substance use, delinquency and sexual risk behaviors. Problematic parent–adolescent communication is consistently associated with increases in all three types of adolescent risk behaviors. Future parental monitoring interventions should focus on enhancing parents' interpersonal communication skills and emphasize the differences in and importance of the unique components of parental monitoring.

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  • Wang, Bo & Stanton, Bonita & Li, Xiaoming & Cottrell, Lesley & Deveaux, Lynette & Kaljee, Linda, 2013. "The influence of parental monitoring and parent–adolescent communication on Bahamian adolescent risk involvement: A three-year longitudinal examination," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 161-169.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:97:y:2013:i:c:p:161-169
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.08.013
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    1. Liuhua Ying & Fengling Ma & Huahua Huang & Xiaolin Guo & Chuansheng Chen & Fen Xu, 2015. "Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(8), pages 1-9, August.
    2. Ruprah, Inder J. & Sierra, Ricardo & Sutton, Heather, 2017. "Sex, violence, and drugs among Latin American and Caribbean adolescents: Do engaged parents make a difference?," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 47-56.
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