Top

Gepubliceerd in:

12-11-2019 | Empirical Research

Do Parenting Practices and Child Disclosure Predict Parental Knowledge? A Meta-Analysis

Auteurs: Dong Liu, Dongzhen Chen, B. Bradford Brown

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 1/2020

Abstract

Parental knowledge of a child’s whereabouts, activities, and relationships is one of the most salient factors protecting adolescents against delinquency and misconduct. It is important to understand which strategies are the most effective. Little is known about the relative strength of associations between different parental strategies and parental knowledge, as well as the potential moderating factors of these associations. Seeking to clarify the effectiveness of various strategies in providing parents with knowledge about their adolescent (ages 10–18) offspring’s activities and relationships, this meta-analytic review of 32 studies showed that children’s disclosure was significantly better than any parental strategy except for parental warmth, which, along with behavioral control, seems to set the stage for the effectiveness of children’s disclosure. Consistent with previous findings, psychological control was found to be the strategy with the lowest effect size. Further moderation analyses suggested that behavioral control had a better effect in Eastern than in Western cultures. Longitudinal studies were infrequent and displayed significantly lower effect sizes than one-time (correlational) studies for parental solicitation and children’s disclosure. Parental warmth was the best long-acting strategy. The effect of behavioral control was higher for mothers than fathers, suggesting that behavioral control was better executed by mothers. These findings enhance our understanding of primary sources of parental knowledge of adolescents’ activities and relationships. Implications for future research and design of interventions are also discussed.

volgende artikel Developmental Pathways from Genetic, Prenatal, Parenting and Emotional/Behavioral Risk to Cortisol Reactivity and Adolescent Substance Use: A TRAILS Study

Alleen toegankelijk voor geautoriseerde gebruikers

References marked with an asterisk indicate studies included in the primary meta-analysis.

Barnes, G. M., Reifman, A. S., Farrell, M. P., & Dintcheff, B. A. (2000). The effects of parenting on the development of adolescent alcohol misuse: a Six‐Wave latent growth model. Journal of Marriage and Family, 62(1), 175–186. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00175.x.CrossRef

Bendezú, J. J., Pinderhughes, E. E., Hurley, S. M., McMahon, R. J., & Racz, S. J. (2016). Longitudinal relations among parental monitoring strategies, knowledge, and adolescent delinquency in a racially diverse at-risk sample. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295190802058868.CrossRef

Blocklin, M. K., Crouter, A. C., Updegraff, K. A., & McHale, S. M. (2011). Sources of parental knowledge in Mexican American families. Family Relations, 60(1), 30–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00631.x.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Borenstein, M., Hedges, L. V., Higgins, J. P., & Rothstein, H. R. (2011). Introduction to meta-analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Borenstein, M., Hedges, L., Higgins, J., & Rothstein, H. (2014). Comprehensive meta-analysis version 3 [Computer software]. Englewood, NJ: Biostat.

*Bumpus, M. F., & Rodgers, K. B. (2009). Parental knowledge and its sources: examining the moderating roles of family structure and race. Journal of Family Issues, 30(10), 1356–1378. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513x09334154.CrossRef

Chang, M. (2007). Cultural differences in parenting styles and their effects on teens’ self-esteem, perceived parental relationship satisfaction, and self-satisfaction. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Chicago. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation).

*Cutrín, O., Maneiro, L., Sobral, J., & Gómez-Fraguela, J. A. (2018). Longitudinal validation of a new measure to assess parental knowledge and its sources in Spanish adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01366-z.CrossRef

Crouter, A. C., & Head, M. R. (2002). Parental monitoring and knowledge of children. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting: Being and becoming a parent (pp. 461–483). Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

*Darling, N., Cumsille, P., Caldwell, L. L., & Dowdy, B. (2006). Predictors of adolescents’ disclosure to parents and perceived parental knowledge: between-and within-person differences. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35(4), 659–670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-006-9058-1.CrossRef

*De Los Reyes, A., Goodman, K. L., Kliewer, W., & Reid-Quinones, K. (2008). Whose depression relates to discrepancies? Testing relations between informant characteristics and informant discrepancies from both informants’ perspectives. Psychological Assessment, 20(2), 139–149. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.20.2.139.CrossRefPubMed

Dotterer, A. M., & Day, E. (2018). Parental knowledge discrepancies: examining the roles of warmth and self-disclosure. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(3), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0853-2.CrossRef

*Eaton, N. R., Krueger, R. F., Johnson, W., McGue, M., & Iacono, W. G. (2009). Parental monitoring, personality, and delinquency: further support for a reconceptualization of monitoring. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(1), 49–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2008.10.006.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Epskamp, S., Cramer, A. O., Waldorp, L. J., Schmittmann, V. D., & Borsboom, D. (2012). qgraph: network visualizations of relationships in psychometric data. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(4), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v048.i04.CrossRef

Fruchterman, T. M., & Reingold, E. M. (1991). Graph drawing by force‐directed placement. Software: Practice and Experience, 21(11), 1129–1164. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21742-6_49.CrossRef

*Fletcher, A. C., Steinberg, L., & Williams‐Wheeler, M. (2004). Parental influences on adolescent problem behavior: Revisiting Stattin and Kerr. Child Development, 75(3), 781–796. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00706.x.CrossRefPubMed

*Garthe, R. C., Sullivan, T., & Kliewer, W. (2015). Longitudinal relations between adolescent and parental behaviors, parental knowledge, and internalizing behaviors among urban adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44(4), 819–832. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0112-0.CrossRefPubMed

*Goldner, J. S. (2009). The relations among parental monitoring and warmth, and adolescent externalizing and internalizing distress: The effects of parent and adolescent perception of neighborhood danger. Illinois: Loyola University Chicago. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.

Gondoli, D. M., Grundy, A. M., Blodgett Salafia, E. H., & Bonds, D. D. (2008). Maternal warmth mediates the relation between mother-preadolescent cohesion and change in maternal knowledge during the transition to adolescence. Parenting: Science and Practice, 8(4), 271–293. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295190802461872.CrossRef

Hawk, S. T., Keijsers, L., Frijns, T., Hale, III, W. W., Branje, S., & Meeus, W. (2013). “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”: parental privacy invasion predicts reduced parental knowledge. Developmental Psychology, 49(7), 1286–1298. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029484.CrossRefPubMed

Hu, L. T., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling: a Multidisciplinary Journal, 6(1), 1–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705519909540118.CrossRef

Hunter, J. E., & Schmidt, F. L. (2015). Methods of meta-analysis: Correcting error and bias in research findings. Sage Publications, Inc.

Keijsers, L., & Poulin, F. (2013). Developmental changes in parent–child communication throughout adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 49(12), 2301–2308.CrossRef

Keijsers, L., Branje, S. J., Frijns, T., Finkenauer, C., & Meeus, W. (2010). Gender differences in keeping secrets from parents in adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 46(1), 293–298.CrossRef

*Keijsers, L., Branje, S. J., VanderValk, I. E., & Meeus, W. (2010). Reciprocal effects between parental solicitation, parental control, adolescent disclosure, and adolescent delinquency. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20(1), 88–113. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00631.x.CrossRef

*Kerr, M., Stattin, H., & Burk, W. J. (2010). A reinterpretation of parental monitoring in longitudinal perspective. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20(1), 39–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00623.x.CrossRef

*Kerr, M., & Stattin, H. (2000). What parents know, how they know it, and several forms of adolescent adjustment: further support for a reinterpretation of monitoring. Developmental Psychology, 36(3), 366–380. https://doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.36.3.366.CrossRefPubMed

*Kincaid, C., Jones, D. J., Cuellar, J., & Gonzalez, M. (2011). Psychological control associated with youth adjustment and risky behavior in African American single mother families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 20(1), 102–110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9383-6.CrossRef

*Lac, A., Alvaro, E. M., Crano, W. D., & Siegel, J. T. (2009). Pathways from parental knowledge and warmth to adolescent marijuana use: an extension to the theory of planned behavior. Prevention Science, 10(1), 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-008-0111-z.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

*LaChausse, R. G. (2008). Parental characteristics and parental monitoring: Effects of parental influence on adolescent disclosure, parent knowledge, and adolescent risk behavior. California: Claremont Graduate University. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.

Laible, D., Carlo, G., Padilla-Walker, L., Laird, R., & Zeringue, M. (2019). Parental knowledge and child disclosure as they relate to prosocial and antisocial behaviors. In The Oxford Handbook of Parenting and Moral Development. Oxford University Press.

*Laird, R. D., & Marrero, M. D. (2011). Mothers’ knowledge of early adolescents’ activities following the middle school transition and pubertal maturation. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 31(2), 209–233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431609361202.CrossRef

Lipsey, M. W., & Wilson, D. B. (2001). Practical meta-analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

*Lippold, M. A., Greenberg, M. T., Graham, J. W., & Feinberg, M. E. (2014). Unpacking the effect of parental monitoring on early adolescent problem behavior: mediation by parental knowledge and moderation by parent–youth warmth. Journal of Family Issues, 35(13), 1800–1823. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513x13484120.CrossRefPubMed

Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98(2), 224–253. https://doi.org/10.1037//0033-295x.98.2.224.CrossRef

*Marshall, S. K., Tilton-Weaver, L. C., & Bosdet, L. (2005). Information management: considering adolescents’ regulation of parental knowledge. Journal of Adolescence, 28(5), 633–647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.008.CrossRefPubMed

Masarik, A. S., & Conger, R. D. (2017). Stress and child development: A review of the Family Stress Model. Current Opinion in Psychology, 13, 85–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.05.008.CrossRefPubMed

McNally, R. J., Robinaugh, D. J., Wu, G. W. Y., Wang, L., Deserno, M. K., & Borsboom, D. (2014). Mental disorders as causal systems. Clinical Psychological Science, 3(6), 836–849. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702614553230.CrossRef

Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (2012). Mplus 7 [Computer software]. Los Angeles, CA: Author.

*Nottingham, K. (2016). Childhood antecedents and adolescent predictors of parental knowledge and its’ association with conduct problems. United Kingdom: University of Surrey. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.

*Padilla-Walker, L. M., Harper, J. M., & Bean, R. A. (2011). Pathways to parental knowledge: the role of family process and family structure. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 31(4), 604–627. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431610366246.CrossRef

Patrick, M. R., Snyder, J., Schrepferman, L. M., & Snyder, J. (2005). The joint contribution of early parental warmth, communication and tracking, and early child conduct problems on monitoring in late childhood. Child Development, 76(5), 999–1014. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00893.x.CrossRefPubMed

Peters, J. L., Sutton, A. J., Jones, D. R., Abrams, K. R., & Rushton, L. (2008). Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 61(10), 991–996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.11.010.CrossRefPubMed

Piotrowska, P. J., Stride, C. B., Croft, S. E., & Rowe, R. (2015). Socioeconomic status and antisocial behavior among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 35, 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2014.11.003.CrossRefPubMed

*Pesola, F., Shelton, K. H., Heron, J., Munafò, M., Hickman, M., & van den Bree, M. B. (2015). The developmental relationship between depressive symptoms in adolescence and harmful drinking in emerging adulthood: the role of peers and parents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44(9), 1752–1766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-015-0295-z.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Pettit, G. S., Laird, R. D., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Criss, M. M. (2001). Antecedents and behavior‐problem outcomes of parental monitoring and psychological control in early adolescence. Child Development, 72(2), 583–598. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00298.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Racz, S. J., & McMahon, R. J. (2011). The relationship between parental knowledge and monitoring and child and adolescent conduct problems: A 10-year update. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 14(4), 377–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-011-0099-y.CrossRefPubMed

*Shek, D. T. (2008). Perceived parental control in Chinese adolescent in Hongkong: a three-year longitudinal study. The Open Family Studies Journal, 1(1), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874922400801010007.CrossRef

Shek, D. T., Xie, Q., & Lin, L. (2015). The impact of family intactness on family functioning, parental control, and parent–child relational qualities in a Chinese context. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2, 149. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2014.00149.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Simonsohn, U., Nelson, L. D., & Simmons, J. P. (2014a). P-curve: a key to the file-drawer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 534–547. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033242.CrossRef

Simonsohn, U., Nelson, L. D., & Simmons, J. P. (2014b). P-curve and effect size: correcting for publication bias using only significant results. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(6), 666–681. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691614553988.CrossRefPubMed

*Smetana, J. G., & Daddis, C. (2002). Domain‐specific antecedents of parental psychological control and monitoring: the role of parenting beliefs and practices. Child Development, 73(2), 563–580. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00424.CrossRefPubMed

*Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyckx, K., & Goossens, L. (2006). Parenting and adolescent problem behavior: an integrated model with adolescent self-disclosure and perceived parental knowledge as intervening variables. Developmental Psychology, 42(2), 305–318. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.42.2.305.CrossRefPubMed

Soenens, B., Elliot, A. J., Goossens, L., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyten, P., & Duriez, B. (2005). The intergenerational transmission of perfectionism: parents’ psychological control as an intervening variable. Journal of Family Psychology, 19(3), 358–366. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.19.3.358.CrossRefPubMed

*Son, I. B., & Choi, J. A. (2013). Parental knowledge trajectory and its relationships with parental warmth and adolescent disclosure for Korean adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(9), 1643–1649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.06.018.CrossRef

*Stattin, H., & Kerr, M. (2000). Parental monitoring: a reinterpretation. Child Development, 71(4), 1072–1085. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00210.CrossRefPubMed

Suh, E., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Triandis, H. C. (1998). The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: emotions versus norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(2), 482–493.CrossRef

van Assen, M. A., van Aert, R., & Wicherts, J. M. (2015). Meta-analysis using effect size distributions of only statistically significant studies. Psychological Methods, 20(3), 293–309. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000025.CrossRefPubMed

*Vieno, A., Nation, M., Pastore, M., & Santinello, M. (2009). Parenting and antisocial behavior: a model of the relationship between adolescent self-disclosure, parental closeness, parental control, and adolescent antisocial behavior. Developmental Psychology, 45(6), 1509–1519. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016929.CrossRefPubMed

Viswesvaran, C., & Ones, D. S. (1995). Theory testing: combining psychometric meta‐analysis and structural equations modeling. Personnel Psychology, 48(4), 865–885. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1995.tb01784.x.CrossRef

Waizenhofer, R. N., Buchanan, C. M., & Jackson-Newsom, J. (2004). Mothers’ and fathers’ knowledge of adolescents’ daily activities: its sources and its links with adolescent adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(2), 348–360. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.18.2.348.CrossRefPubMed

*Wang, B., Stanton, B., Li, X., Cottrell, L., Deveaux, L., & Kaljee, L. (2013). The influence of parental monitoring and parent–adolescent communication on Bahamian adolescent risk involvement: a three-year longitudinal examination. Social Science & Medicine, 97, 161–169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.08.013.CrossRef

*Willoughby, T., & Hamza, C. A. (2011). A longitudinal examination of the bidirectional associations among perceived parenting behaviors, adolescent disclosure and problem behavior across the high school years. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40(4), 463–478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9567-9.CrossRefPubMed

*Ying, L., Ma, F., Huang, H., Guo, X., Chen, C., & Xu, F. (2015). Parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, and adolescents’ trust in their parents in China. PLoS ONE, 10(8), e0134730 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134730.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

*Yoo, H., Feng, X., & Day, R. D. (2013). Adolescents’ empathy and prosocial behavior in the family context: a longitudinal study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42(12), 1858–1872. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-012-9900-6.CrossRefPubMed

*Yun, H. J., Cui, M., & Blair, B. L. (2016). The mediating roles of adolescent disclosure and parental knowledge in the association between parental warmth and delinquency among Korean adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 8(25), 2395–2404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0425-6.CrossRef

Titel: Do Parenting Practices and Child Disclosure Predict Parental Knowledge? A Meta-Analysis
Auteurs: Dong Liu
Dongzhen Chen
B. Bradford Brown
Publicatiedatum: 12-11-2019
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01154-4

Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Deel dit onderdeel of sectie (kopieer de link)

Abstract

Log in om toegang te krijgen

Andere artikelen Uitgave 1/2020

Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents

When is Parental Monitoring Effective? A Person-centered Analysis of the Role of Autonomy-supportive and Psychologically Controlling Parenting in Referred and Non-referred Adolescents

Parent–Child Discrepancies in Perceived Parental Favoritism: Associations with Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Chinese Families

Parent–Adolescent Acculturation Profiles and Adolescent Language Brokering Experiences in Mexican Immigrant Families

Overestimating Self-Blame for Stressful Life Events and Adolescents’ Latent Trait Cortisol: The Moderating Role of Parental Warmth

Coparenting Conflict Behavior, Parent–Adolescent Attachment, and Social Competence with Peers: An Investigation of Developmental Differences