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To evaluate whether parental knowledge stems from active monitoring efforts or youth disclosure, and examine how each factor longitudinally influences adolescent delinquency.

January 28, 2010Journal of Research on AdolescenceOpen Access

A Reinterpretation of Parental Monitoring in Longitudinal Perspective

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MKMargaret KerrUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison HSHåkan StattinUppsala University WBWilliam J. BurkRadboud University Nijmegen

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Longitudinal study reveals youth disclosure rather than active parental monitoring predicts delinquency changes in adolescents, suggesting past monitoring measures require reinterpretation.

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To evaluate whether parental knowledge stems from active monitoring efforts or youth disclosure, and examine how each factor longitudinally influences adolescent delinquency.
Tracked 938 seventh and eighth graders and their parents across a 2-year longitudinal study design.
Assessed parental monitoring behaviors (parental control and solicitation), spontaneous youth disclosure, and parental knowledge using single- and cross-rater models.
Modeled longitudinal changes in adolescent delinquent behavior predicted by monitoring efforts versus youth disclosure.
Youth disclosure served as a statistically significant longitudinal predictor of parental knowledge in both single-rater and cross-rater models.
Neither measure of active parental monitoring efforts—parental control or solicitation—significantly predicted parental knowledge over time.
Youth disclosure significantly predicted longitudinal reductions in adolescent delinquency, whereas active parental monitoring efforts did not predict delinquency changes.

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Kerr et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ff0638090e499da6062eb https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00623.x

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Longitudinal study reveals youth disclosure rather than active parental monitoring predicts delinquency changes in adolescents, suggesting past monitoring measures require reinterpretation.

A Reinterpretation of Parental Monitoring in Longitudinal Perspective

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A Reinterpretation of Parental Monitoring in Longitudinal Perspective

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