ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2023
Parental knowledge/monitoring and adolescent substance use: A causal relationship?
Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Prescription Pain Medication Misuse with and Without Heroin Use Among Adolescents: relationships with Routine Healthcare, Family Support, Academic Performance, Violence, and Other Risky Behaviors.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Theory for How Parental Monitoring Changes Youth Behavior.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- How Can Clinicians Improve Parental Monitoring of Adolescents? A Content Review of Manualized Interventions.Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health · 2025Article
- Conceptualisation of health among young people: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies.BMJ public health · 2025Article
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- Sex differences in reward network activation are linked to problematic substance use among high-risk adolescents.Advances in drug and alcohol research · 2025Article
- The ABCD and HBCD Studies: Longitudinal Studies to Inform Prevention Science.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Review
- How Does Parental Monitoring Reduce Adolescent Substance Use? Preliminary Tests of Two Potential Mechanisms.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveMany studies have shown that parental knowledge/monitoring is correlated with adolescent substance use, but the association may be confounded by the many preexisting differences between families with low versus high monitoring. We attempted to produce more rigorous evidence for a causal relation using a longitudinal design that took advantage of within-family fluctuations in knowledge/monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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resultsYouth initially denying substance use were significantly more likely to start reporting use when they experienced a decrease in the level of perceived knowledge/monitoring (relative risk [RR] = 1.18,
conclusionIn a large, sociodemographically diverse sample, within-family changes in youth-perceived parental knowledge/monitoring over time were robustly associated with changes in youths' engagement in substance use. Findings lend support to the hypothesis that parent knowledge/monitoring is causally related to substance involvement in early adolescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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