SynthesisJournal of youth and adolescence2020
Do Parenting Practices and Child Disclosure Predict Parental Knowledge? A Meta-Analysis.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parental Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Bullying Victimization in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Parent Outreach Efforts Extend the Sustained Benefits of a Preschool Classroom Intervention: Adolescent Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- Age-Varying Associations of Maternal Knowledge and Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms in Dyadic and Cultural Contexts.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Mother-Adolescent Discrepancies in Psychological Adjustment Using Latent Profile Analysis: Longitudinal Predictors of Reporter-Specific Relationship Quality.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with bullying based on the Indonesian version of revised Olweus/Bully Victim Questionnaire (OBVQ-R) among senior high school students.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Prospective associations between parental warmth and knowledge in late adolescence and depression and anxiety symptoms in young adulthood: a Swedish cohort study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Parental Influence on Adolescent Gambling: the Role of Communication, Rules, and Social Support.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Parental Solicitation, Rule-Setting, and Psychological Control as Predictors of Adolescent Disclosure across More Individualistic and More Collectivistic Countries.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- Exploring parent-child relationships in a Swedish child and adolescent psychiatry - cohort of adolescents with internet gaming disorder.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Theory for How Parental Monitoring Changes Youth Behavior.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents' social media use scale (PACAS).Journal of children and media · 2024Article
- Developmental Changes in the Relation between Youth Disclosure and Parenting Behavior: A Cohort-sequential Analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
- Adolescents' Comfort in Disclosing to Caregivers Predicts Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Directly and Indirectly Through Difficulties in Emotion Regulation.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
- Unraveling the Bidirectional Associations between Parental Knowledge and Children's Externalizing Behavior.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
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- Parenting Practices and Psychosomatic Complaints Among Swedish Adolescents.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- High School Students' Depression Literacy about Interventions and Prevention: A Survey in Tehran.Depression research and treatment · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Parental Support and Parental Knowledge on Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Interparental Conflict and Delinquency Among Chinese Adolescents: Parental Knowledge as a Mediator and Deviant Peer Affiliation as a Moderator.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Parental knowledge of a child's whereabouts, activities, and relationships is one of the most salient factors protecting adolescents against delinquency and misconduct. It is important to understand which strategies are the most effective. Little is known about the relative strength of associations between different parental strategies and parental knowledge, as well as the potential moderating factors of these associations. Seeking to clarify the effectiveness of various strategies in providing parents with knowledge about their adolescent (ages 10-18) offspring's activities and relationships, this meta-analytic review of 32 studies showed that children's disclosure was significantly better than any parental strategy except for parental warmth, which, along with behavioral control, seems to set the stage for the effectiveness of children's disclosure. Consistent with previous findings, psychological control was found to be the strategy with the lowest effect size. Further moderation analyses suggested that behavioral control had a better effect in Eastern than in Western cultures. Longitudinal studies were infrequent and displayed significantly lower effect sizes than one-time (correlational) studies for parental solicitation and children's disclosure. Parental warmth was the best long-acting strategy. The effect of behavioral control was higher for mothers than fathers, suggesting that behavioral control was better executed by mothers. These findings enhance our understanding of primary sources of parental knowledge of adolescents' activities and relationships. Implications for future research and design of interventions are also discussed.
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