The development of parental monitoring during adolescence: A meta-analysis
By Francesca Lionetti, Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, Christina Moses Passini, M. Casonato, Oriola Hamzallari, M. Ranta, A. Dellagiulia, L. Keijsers. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2018
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Abstract 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.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology
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- Adolescent–Parent Relationships: Progress, Processes, and Prospects (2019, background): “…over the course of adolescence, families in Western cultures experience moderate decreases in parental control, small to moderate decreases in parental knowledge and solicitation, small decreases in adolescent disclosure, and small to moderate increases in secrecy (Lionetti et al. 2018).”