scholarly journals Parents' and Youths' Solicitation and Disclosure of Information in Today's Digital Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Jessie H. Rudi ◽  
Jodi Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Disclosure Of Information ◽  
Substance Use Initiation

Extensive research has identified parental monitoring to be a protective factor for youth. Parental monitoring includes parents’ solicitation of information from their child and the child’s voluntary disclosure of information. In today’s digital society, parental monitoring can occur using technology, such as text messaging, email, and social networking sites. The current study describes parents’ and youths’ communication technology use explicitly to solicit and share information with each other in a sample of 56 parent–youth dyads from the same family (youth were 13 to 25 years old). We also examined associations between in-person parental monitoring, parental monitoring using technology, parental knowledge, and youth substance use initiation. Results revealed great variability in frequency of parental monitoring using technology, with a subgroup of parents and youth reporting doing these behaviors very frequently. Parental monitoring using technology was not associated with greater parental knowledge or youth substance use initiation after controlling for youth age group (adolescent or emerging adult) and gender composition of dyads. However, in-person communication between youth and parents remained an important variable and was positively associated with parental knowledge. Youth workers could empower parents to focus on in-person communication, and not rely solely on communication using technology.

Sex differences in the association between parental monitoring and substance use initiation among adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 107024
Author(s):  
Francesca Keogh-Clark ◽  
Reid C. Whaley ◽  
Adam M. Leventhal ◽  
Evan A. Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Substance Use Initiation

Perceived Parental Monitoring on Adolescence Premarital Sexual Behavior in Pontianak City, Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Suwarni ◽  
Djauhar Ismail ◽  
Yayi Suryo Prabandari ◽  
MG Adiyanti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Path Coefficient ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Premarital Sexual

Inadaquate parental monitoring is widely recognized as a risk factor for the development of child and adolescent conduct problems, including early premarital sexual behavior. Previous studies examining parental monitoring have largely effect to adolescents premarital sexual behavior. Parental monitoring is the most important and effective factor to prevent early adolescents sexual activity. This paper examines the role of perceived parental monitoring in adolescent’s premarital sexual behavior (study on Adolescent’s Junior High School in Pontianak). A cross-sectional study and proportionated random sampling was conducted among 402 adolescents of junior high school at six subdistricts in Pontianak. SEM analyses was conducted using SMART-PLS. Result of path analysis revealed that parental knowledge (r = 0.389) and parental-adolescence relationship (r = 0.334) had a strong influence on parental monitoring. Then, parental monitoring had a significant indirect relationship with adolescent premarital sexual behavior through attitudes about premarital sexual (path coefficient = 0.063), and attitudes about premarital sexual and intention to sexual behaviour (path coefficient = 0.03). Parental monitoring can act as protective factor in early adolescent premarital sexual behavior. Therefore, risk reduction interventions with adolescents should include their parents to learn about monitoring skill and develop skill that will allow them to buffer negative influences.

scholarly journals Monitoring Matters

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 578-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Lac ◽  
William D. Crano
Keyword(s):  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
File Drawer ◽  
Adolescent Marijuana Use ◽  
Practical Implications

Parental monitoring is commonly accredited as an important protective factor against risky adolescent behaviors. In this meta-analytic review, associations of adolescents' perceptions of parental monitoring with adolescent marijuana use were collected and quantified across 25 independent samples from 17 empirical studies involving 35,367 unique participants. Applying a random-effects model, the average magnitude of effect was r = –.21. The association was significantly stronger in female-only samples (r = –.31 vs. r = –.19, p < .001) and when parental monitoring was defined purely in terms of parental knowledge of the child's whereabouts, activities, and relations (r = –.24 vs. r = –.19, p < .05). Cross-sectional (r = –.23) and longitudinal studies (r = –.10) disclosed significant effect sizes. To assess publication bias, a file-drawer analysis indicated that 7,358 studies of nil effect size would be necessary to render the association of parental monitoring and reduced marijuana usage nonsignificant. Theoretical and practical implications of parental monitoring are discussed, especially issues concerning the measurement of parental monitoring and the possible utility of the construct in curtailing marijuana use.

scholarly journals Perceived Parental Monitoring on Adolescence Premarital Sexual Behavior in Pontianak City, Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Linda Suwarni ◽  
Djauhar Ismail ◽  
Yayi Suryo Prabandari ◽  
MG Adiyanti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Path Coefficient ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Premarital Sexual

Inadaquate parental monitoring is widely recognized as a risk factor for the development of child and adolescent conduct problems, including early premarital sexual behavior. Previous studies examining parental monitoring have largely effect to adolescents premarital sexual behavior. Parental monitoring is the most important and effective factor to prevent early adolescents sexual activity. This paper examines the role of perceived parental monitoring in adolescent’s premarital sexual behavior (study on Adolescent’s Junior High School in Pontianak). A cross-sectional study and proportionated random sampling was conducted among 402 adolescents of junior high school at six subdistricts in Pontianak. SEM analyses was conducted using SMART-PLS. Result of path analysis revealed that parental knowledge (r = 0.389) and parental-adolescence relationship (r = 0.334) had a strong influence on parental monitoring. Then, parental monitoring had a significant indirect relationship with adolescent premarital sexual behavior through attitudes about premarital sexual (path coefficient = 0.063), and attitudes about premarital sexual and intention to sexual behaviour (path coefficient = 0.03). Parental monitoring can act as protective factor in early adolescent premarital sexual behavior. Therefore, risk reduction interventions with adolescents should include their parents to learn about monitoring skill and develop skill that will allow them to buffer negative influences.

scholarly journals Links between Psychotropic Substance Use and Sensation Seeking in a Prevalence Study: The Role of Some Features of Parenting Style in a Large Sample of Adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Scalese ◽  
Olivia Curzio ◽  
Valentina Cutrupi ◽  
Luca Bastiani ◽  
Mercedes Gori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Psychotropic Substance ◽  
Adolescent Parent ◽  
School Survey ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs

Aims. The objectives of the study were to (a) investigate the prevalence risk of current drug users and (b) explore the association between parental monitoring, adolescent-parent relationship, family structure, financial status, and sensation-seeking and psychotropic substance use.Methods. Data were drawn from the 2002 Italian student population survey of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. The sample size was 10,790 adolescents, aged 15–19 years. Multivariate logistic analyses were performed.Findings. The prevalence of users was 27.3% (34.2% males; 21.6% females). Single-parent and reconstructed families were related to the greatest likelihood of substance use. A medium financial status and, for females, a satisfying relationship with father were protective factors. Probability of engaging in risk-taking behavior increased when parental knowledge decreased. Exploring deeper how parental monitoring could modify the relation between different traits of sensation seeking and substances use revealed the following: “thrill and adventure seeking,” within the case of a good monitoring, can help against the use of substances; “boredom susceptibility” is not associated with drug use, except when parental monitoring is weak.Conclusions. Specific subdimensions, associated with substance use, may be more amenable to prevention than general interventions on sensation-seeking personality. Family is the context that could promote health education.

scholarly journals Parent-reported childhood temperament and adolescent self-reported substance use initiation

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 106503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason E. Strickhouser ◽  
Antonio Terracciano ◽  
Angelina R. Sutin
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Initiation

scholarly journals Increases in social support co-occur with decreases in depressive symptoms and substance use problems among adults in permanent supportive housing: an 18-month longitudinal study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengqi Tan ◽  
Eun-Young Mun ◽  
Uyen-Sa D. T. Nguyen ◽  
Scott T. Walters
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Supportive Housing ◽  
Permanent Supportive Housing ◽  
Substance Use Problems ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Background Social support is a well-known protective factor against depressive symptoms and substance use problems, but very few studies have examined its protective effects among residents of permanent supportive housing (PSH), a housing program for people with a history of chronic homelessness. We utilized unconditional latent growth curve models (LGCMs) and parallel process growth models to describe univariate trajectories of social support, depressive symptoms, and substance use problems and to examine their longitudinal associations in a large sample of adults residing in PSH. Methods Participants were 653 adult PSH residents in North Texas (56% female; 57% Black; mean age: 51 years) who participated in a monthly health coaching program from 2014 to 2017. Their health behaviors were assessed at baseline and tracked every six months at three follow-up visits. Results Unconditional LGCMs indicated that over time, social support increased, whereas depressive symptoms and substance use problems decreased. However, their rates of change slowed over time. Further, in parallel process growth models, we found that at baseline, individuals with greater social support tended to have less severe depressive symptoms and substance use problems (coefficients: − 0.67, p < 0.01; − 0.52, p < 0.01, respectively). Individuals with a faster increase in social support tended to have steeper rates of reduction in both depressive symptoms (coefficient: − 0.99, p < 0.01) and substance use problems (coefficient: − 0.98, p < 0.01), respectively. Conclusions This study suggests that plausibly, increases in social support, though slowing over time, still positively impact depressive symptoms and substance use problems among PSH residents. Future PSH programs could emphasize social support as an early component as it may contribute to clients’ overall health.

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