TY - JOUR
T1 - The development of parental monitoring during adolescence
T2 - A meta-analysis
AU - Lionetti, Francesca
AU - Palladino, Benedetta Emanuela
AU - Moses Passini, Christina
AU - Casonato, Marta
AU - Hamzallari, Oriola
AU - Ranta, Mette
AU - Dellagiulia, Antonio
AU - Keijsers, Loes
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - As adolescents grow up, one of the important developmental tasks is to individuate themselves and to become more autonomous from parents. This requires a realignment of the parent-adolescent communication. The current meta-analytic study aims at identifying developmental changes in parent-adolescent communication, conceptualized within the parental monitoring framework, as entailing parental solicitation, control and knowledge, and adolescent’s disclosure and secrecy. Thirty-one longitudinal studies published between 2000 and 2015 were identified and included in the current meta-analysis. Informants, age at assessment and study duration were tested as moderators. Results showed a low to medium normative decline in parental control (Cohen’s d = −.395, 95% CI [−.541, −.249]), knowledge (d = −.245,95% CI [−.331, −.160] and adolescence disclosure (d = −.147, 95% CI [−.204, −.090]), and an increase in adolescent’s secrecy (d = .194, CI [031, .356]). Parental solicitation decreased based on parents’ (d = −.242, 95% CI[−.376, −.109]) but not on adolescents’ reports (d = .038, 95% CI[−.099, .175]). Another significant moderator was the duration of the study, with studies longer than 2 years being able to detect a more pronounced change in parental control than studies lasting less than 2 years (≤2 years, d = −.139 vs. duration > 2 years, d = −.581). Limitations of the current knowledge and new directions of studies are discussed.
AB - As adolescents grow up, one of the important developmental tasks is to individuate themselves and to become more autonomous from parents. This requires a realignment of the parent-adolescent communication. The current meta-analytic study aims at identifying developmental changes in parent-adolescent communication, conceptualized within the parental monitoring framework, as entailing parental solicitation, control and knowledge, and adolescent’s disclosure and secrecy. Thirty-one longitudinal studies published between 2000 and 2015 were identified and included in the current meta-analysis. Informants, age at assessment and study duration were tested as moderators. Results showed a low to medium normative decline in parental control (Cohen’s d = −.395, 95% CI [−.541, −.249]), knowledge (d = −.245,95% CI [−.331, −.160] and adolescence disclosure (d = −.147, 95% CI [−.204, −.090]), and an increase in adolescent’s secrecy (d = .194, CI [031, .356]). Parental solicitation decreased based on parents’ (d = −.242, 95% CI[−.376, −.109]) but not on adolescents’ reports (d = .038, 95% CI[−.099, .175]). Another significant moderator was the duration of the study, with studies longer than 2 years being able to detect a more pronounced change in parental control than studies lasting less than 2 years (≤2 years, d = −.139 vs. duration > 2 years, d = −.581). Limitations of the current knowledge and new directions of studies are discussed.
KW - CHILD COMMUNICATION
KW - GENDER-DIFFERENCES
KW - INFORMANT DISCREPANCIES
KW - KNOWLEDGE
KW - LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATIONS
KW - PRIVACY INVASION
KW - PROBLEM BEHAVIOR
KW - Parental solicitation
KW - SELF-DISCLOSURE
KW - SOLICITATION
KW - UNITED-STATES
KW - adolescent disclosure
KW - adolescent secrecy
KW - parental control
KW - parental knowledge
KW - parental monitoring
UR - https://app-eu.readspeaker.com/cgi-bin/rsent?customerid=10118&lang=en_us&readclass=rs_readArea&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F17405629.2018.1476233
U2 - 10.1080/17405629.2018.1476233
DO - 10.1080/17405629.2018.1476233
M3 - Article
SN - 1740-5629
VL - 16
SP - 552
EP - 580
JO - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
IS - 5
ER -