ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2025
Theory for How Parental Monitoring Changes Youth Behavior.
Article in Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Predictors of Suicidal Thoughts and Attempts among School-Going Thai Adolescents: A Sex-Specific Structural Equation Modelling Analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 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
- Is parental monitoring just a way to acquire knowledge? Re-evaluating a Re-conceptualization.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- SERES: La Paz Empieza en Casa-Evaluation of an Intervention Program to Reduce Corporal Punishment and Parenting Stress, and to Enhance Positive Parenting Among Colombian Parents.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Parental Monitoring, Parental Knowledge, and the Occurrence of Potentially Traumatic Events in Adolescence.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 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
- Digital Location Tracking of Children and Adolescents: A Theoretical Framework and Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Review
- Drinking firsts at home and with parental knowledge: Racial/ethnic differences in associations with later alcohol outcomes among underage youth.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- 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
Low parental monitoring is a well-established risk factor for and presumed cause of teen problem behavior. However, an integrated theory for how monitoring changes teen behavior has not been articulated. We propose a model in which parental monitoring can reduce teen misbehavior via nine mechanisms organized into behavior-management (B), context-control (C), and relationship/support-mediated (R) domains (BCR Model). Parental monitoring increases the expectation and actual occurrence of punishment for misbehavior (B), enables the parent to steer the teens' socialization contexts (peers, non-parent adults, siblings, media) away from those that encourage misbehavior (C), and strengthens the teen's bond to parent, disclosure of information, and receipt of social support (R)-all of which in turn reduce misbehavior.
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