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ReviewResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2025

On the Measurement and Conceptualization of Parental Rules.

Emily M Schulze, John C Schwarz-Torres, Emily C Kemp, Herry Patel, William E Pelham

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Review in Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Emily M SchulzeDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America. emilymschulze@gmail.com.ORCID 0009-0001-0131-4402
John C Schwarz-TorresDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America.
Emily C KempDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America.
Herry PatelDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America.
William E PelhamDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America. wpelham@ucsd.edu.

Funding

Family processes underlying adolescent substance use and conduct problems: disentangling correlation and causationK08DA055935 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI William Ellerbe Pelham III · 2022 to 2026
$959k
Development of practical screening tools to support targeted prevention of early, high-risk drinking substance useR21DA058314 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PELHAM III, WILLIAM ELLERBE · 2023 to 2024
$592k
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent drinking in a longitudinal cohort spanning 21 U.S. citiesR21AA030197 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PELHAM III, WILLIAM ELLERBE · 2022 to 2023
$447k
NIAAA NIH HHS AA030197NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA030197NIDA NIH HHS DA055935NIDA NIH HHS DA058314NIDA NIH HHS K08 DA055935NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA058314
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parental rules have been curiously neglected from a conceptual and measurement perspective. The first half of this paper reviews the literature to show that there is no commonly used, standardized measure of rules. Rules are typically measured either with ad hoc unvalidated items or incidentally measured with 1-2 items on multi-item scales assessing a broader parenting construct (e.g., discipline). Construct definitions are rarely stated, often circular, and inconsistent between authors. As a result, the empirical literature on parental rules is difficult to appraise and synthesize. The second half of this paper proposes a new framework for conceptualizing parental rules that includes an explicit, non-circular construct definition and delineates 7 distinct dimensions along which a parental rule can vary. The framework is designed to be universally applicable across youth behaviors and scientific fields and enable a more rigorous empirical science of parental rules.

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Parent-Child RelationsParentingAdolescentChildHumansParentsAdolescenceChildhoodParental rulesParenting

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PMID41286395
PMCPMC12833910

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