Reciprocal Relations Between Parenting and Adjustment in a Sample of Juvenile Offenders

The over-time reciprocal links between parenting and adolescent adjustment were examined in a sample of 1,354 serious adolescent offenders followed for 3 years (16 years of age at baseline, SD = 1.14). Parallel processing growth curve models provided independent estimates of the impact of parenting...

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Published in:Child development 2011-03, Vol.82 (2), p.633-645
Main Authors: Williams, Lela Rankin, Steinberg, Laurence
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment
Adjustment (to Environment)
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affective Behavior
Antisocial behavior
Behavior Problems
Behavioural psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior
Child development
Child psychology
Child Rearing
Criminal justice
Criminal offenses
Criminals - psychology
Delinquency
Developmental psychology
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Growth models
Hostility
Humans
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency - prevention & control
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Juvenile offenders
Male
Medical sciences
Monitoring
Parent Child Relationship
Parent Influence
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting
Parenting - psychology
Parenting style
Parenting Styles
Parents
Parents & parenting
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social Adjustment
Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency
Young offenders
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Summary:The over-time reciprocal links between parenting and adolescent adjustment were examined in a sample of 1,354 serious adolescent offenders followed for 3 years (16 years of age at baseline, SD = 1.14). Parallel processing growth curve models provided independent estimates of the impact of parenting on adolescent functioning as well as the impact of adolescent functioning on parenting. Positive adolescent development was facilitated by high parental warmth and low parental hostility. Parental monitoring predicted less problematic behavior, but less positive functioning as well. Predictably, parents became warmer and less hostile in response to positive adolescent development, and less warm in response to problematic adolescent functioning. Parental monitoring declined when adolescents exhibited either positive or problematic functioning.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01523.x