ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2024
What is Parental Monitoring?
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- Inhibitory Control in Late Childhood as a Predictor of Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence and the Role of Social Context.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Parental Digital Tracking of Adolescents' School Performance, Location, and Finances: Widespread, Often Accepted, and Linked to Overprotection.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Parent-Adolescent Informant Discrepancies and Adolescent Adjustment Outcomes: A Directional Comparison and Associations with Family Functioning.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- The Association Between Parental Homework Checking and Chinese Adolescents' Loneliness: The Mediating Role of Academic Pressure and the Moderating Role of Parental Educational Expectations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a New Measure of Stepparent-Adolescent Interaction.Family transitions (Philadelphia, Penn.) · 2026Article
- Unpacking Moderators in the Path from Parental Knowledge to Educational Attainment and Job Satisfaction: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study.The Journal of early adolescence · 2025Article
- On the Measurement and Conceptualization of Parental Rules.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Review
- Is parental monitoring just a way to acquire knowledge? Re-evaluating a Re-conceptualization.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- A Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Informant Examination of Adolescent Psychopathy and its Links to Parental Monitoring: The Moderating Role of Resting Arousal.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Reflections on a Career in Prevention Science Focused on the Development, Prevention, and Treatment of Youth Conduct Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Prevention Science and Youth Conduct Problems: Development, Prevention, and Treatment.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Honoring the Work of Robert McMahon: a Commentary on This Special Issue.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- Parental Monitoring, Parental Knowledge, and the Occurrence of Potentially Traumatic Events in Adolescence.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Predicting factors of aggression among Indonesian middle adolescents with conduct problems in the community: A correlational study.Belitung nursing journal · 2025Article
- Digital Location Tracking of Children and Adolescents: A Theoretical Framework and Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Review
- A Preliminary Evaluation of Daily and Momentary Variability in Parenting Practices During Adolescent Alcohol Use and Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment.Substance use : research and treatmentArticle
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Abstract
Parental monitoring is a construct of longstanding interest in multiple fields-but what is it? This paper makes two contributions to the ongoing debate. First, we review how the published literature has defined and operationalized parental monitoring. We show that the monitoring construct has often been defined in an indirect and nonspecific fashion and measured using instruments that vary widely in conceptual content. The result has been a disjointed empirical literature that cannot accurately be described as the unified study of a single construct nor is achieving a cumulative scientific character. Second, we offer a new formulation of the monitoring construct intended to remedy this situation. We define parental monitoring as the set of all behaviors performed by caregivers with the goal of acquiring information about the youth's activities and life. We introduce a taxonomy identifying 5 distinct types of monitoring behaviors (Types 1-5), with each behavior varying along five dimensions (performer, target, frequency, context, style). We distinguish parental monitoring from 16 other parenting constructs it is often conflated with and position monitoring as one element within the broader parent-youth monitoring process: the continuous, dyadic interplay between caregivers and youth as they navigate caregivers attempts' to monitor youth. By offering an explicit and detailed conceptualization of monitoring, we aim to foster more rigorous and impactful research in this area.
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