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Parental knowledge and youth risky behavior: a person oriented approach
Melissa A Lippold1, Mark T Greenberg, Linda M Collins
1The Center for Healthy Aging, The Pennsylvania State University, 118 Henderson Bldg., University Park, PA, 16802, USA, mal394@psu.edu.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
|December 28, 2012
Summary
Understanding how parents gain knowledge about their children
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Adolescent Behavior
- Family Studies
Background:
- Most research examines single parental knowledge behaviors, not their combinations.
- Understanding combined parental knowledge strategies is crucial for adolescent risk behaviors.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how specific combinations of parental knowledge behaviors relate to adolescent risk-taking.
- To identify distinct subgroups (latent classes) of mother-youth dyads based on parental knowledge strategies.
Main Methods:
- Utilized survey data from 796 rural 6th graders and their mothers.
- Assessed maternal knowledge, monitoring, youth disclosure, supervision, and communication.
- Employed latent class analysis to identify subgroups.
Main Results:
- Five classes emerged: High-Monitors, Maternal Over-Estimators, Low-Monitors, Communication-Focused, and Supervision-Focused.
- Supervision-Focused class linked to delinquency, antisocial peers, and substance use.
- Low-Monitors and Maternal Over-Estimators associated with unhealthy substance attitudes; Low-Monitors also linked to substance use.
Conclusions:
- A person-oriented approach reveals nuanced relationships between parental knowledge strategies and adolescent risk.
- Specific combinations of parental knowledge behaviors have differential associations with youth risk.
- Findings inform interventions aimed at optimizing parental knowledge strategies to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.
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