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29-10-2019 | Empirical Research

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

Auteurs: Ana Rodríguez-Meirinhos, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Bart Soenens, Alfredo Oliva, Katrijn Brenning, Lucía Antolín-Suárez

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

Abstract

Over the last few years, the protective role of parental monitoring on adolescent adjustment (i.e., active parental efforts aimed at setting limits and tracking adolescents’ activities and whereabouts) has been challenged. Recent research has shifted attention to the conditions under which monitoring may be more or less effective. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, this study investigated the role of parents’ autonomy-supportive and psychologically controlling parenting in effects of parental monitoring on adolescents’ adjustment. It also considered the role of adolescents’ clinical status (i.e., clinically referred vs non-referred). Adopting a person-centered approach, we aimed to identify naturally occurring profiles of monitoring, autonomy-support, and psychological control and to examine differences between these profiles in terms of life satisfaction, positive affect, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Participants included 218 referred (M_age = 14.44, 56% girls) and 218 matched adolescents from a larger sample of 1056 community (Mage = 14.83, 52.9% girls). Multigroup Latent Profile Analyses revealed five parenting profiles which were structurally equivalent in both samples: high monitoring with either high autonomy support or high psychological control, low monitoring with either high autonomy-support or high psychological control, and an average profile. Referred youth were significantly more present in the average profile and in the profiles characterized by high levels of psychological control. As hypothesized, profiles showed a differential association with adolescents’ self-reported adjustment, with the high monitoring—high autonomy support profile yielding the most optimal and the low monitoring—high psychological control profile yielding the worst outcomes. Associations between profiles and outcomes were similar for referred and non-referred adolescents. These findings highlight the importance of considering the parenting climate (i.e., autonomy-supportive versus psychologically controlling) to understand effects of parental monitoring during adolescence.

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Single-group LPA was replicated in the larger non-referred group compromising 1056 adolescents, including the individuals already matched. Although none of the solutions showed a minimum BIC or aBIC value as they decrease with each successive model, the decrease tended to plateau at around five profiles. Similarly, the BLRT was significant for each model comparison. However, as indicated by the Loglikelihood Difference value the added improvement of each solution became smaller when more than five profiles were retained. The entropy value for the five-profile model was higher than for any other solution (0.89) except for the simpler model with two profiles. Thus, these results provided additional trust in the five-profile solution as the most appropriate solution to describe the data of the non-referred group.

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Titel: 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
Auteurs: Ana Rodríguez-Meirinhos
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Bart Soenens
Alfredo Oliva
Katrijn Brenning
Lucía Antolín-Suárez
Publicatiedatum: 29-10-2019
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/s10964-019-01151-7

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