What Parents Know, How They Know It, and Several Forms of Adolescent Adjustment: Further Support for a Reinterpretation of Monitoring.

Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan

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Publication Date: 2000

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What Parents Know, How They Know It, and Several Forms of Adolescent Adjustment: Further Support for a Reinterpretation of Monitoring.

Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan

Developmental Psychology, v36 n3 p366-80 May 2000

Tested the tracking/surveillance explanation of why parental knowledge is linked to adolescent adjustment. Found that across age and informant, high parental knowledge was linked to good adjustment in Swedish 14-year-olds, but children's spontaneous information disclosure explained more of these relations than parents' knowledge. Suggested that parents' tracking and surveillance efforts are not as effective as previously thought. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Social Adjustment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Sweden

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