Gender, Perceived Parental Monitoring, and Behavioral Adjustment: Influences on Adolescent Alcohol Use

This study examined relationships among gender, perceived parental monitoring, externalizing behaviors, and adolescent alcohol use in a 2-wave longitudinal study. Females reported more perceived parental monitoring and less alcohol use than males. Perceived maternal and paternal monitoring were rela...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 2002-07, Vol.72 (3), p.392-400
Main Authors: Webb, John A, Bray, James H, Getz, J. Greg, Adams, Gerald
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adolescent Attitudes
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcohol
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Alcohol Use
Alcoholism
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Childrearing Practices
Drinking Behavior
Externalization
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Gender
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Impact analysis
Logistic Models
Male
Medical sciences
Monitoring
Parent Child Relations
Parenting
Parents & parenting
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sex Differences
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teenagers
U.S.A
Youth
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Summary:This study examined relationships among gender, perceived parental monitoring, externalizing behaviors, and adolescent alcohol use in a 2-wave longitudinal study. Females reported more perceived parental monitoring and less alcohol use than males. Perceived maternal and paternal monitoring were related to less alcohol use over time. Increases in alcohol use were associated with increases in externalizing behaviors over time. Perceived maternal monitoring mediated the relationship between gender and youth drinking and was also a significant predictor of changes in adolescent drinking over time. Perceived paternal monitoring was not a predictor of adolescent drinking in the context of perceived maternal monitoring and externalizing behaviors. The importance of gender in implementation of prevention programs is discussed.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1037/0002-9432.72.3.392