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. 2012:2012:396163.
doi: 10.1155/2012/396163. Epub 2012 Jun 7.

But I trust my teen: parents' attitudes and response to a parental monitoring intervention

Aaron Metzger  1 , Christa Ice, Lesley Cottrell
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But I trust my teen: parents' attitudes and response to a parental monitoring intervention

Aaron Metzger et al. AIDS Res Treat. 2012.

Abstract

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.

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Parental open communication slopes at different levels of ATP. ATP: parent attitudes about monitoring and the importance of adolescent trust and privacy.
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Figure 2
Teen-reported parental monitoring slopes at different levels of ATP. ATP: parent attitudes about monitoring and the importance of adolescent trust and privacy.
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Figure 3
Teen-reported parental monitoring linear + quadratic slopes at different levels of EXP. EXP: parent attitudes about the impact of monitoring on adolescent risk behavior and experimentation.
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