Parental monitoring: a reinterpretation.

By Håkan Stattin, Margaret Kerr. Child Development, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Impact of Family Efficacy Beliefs on Quality of Family Functioning and Satisfaction with Family Life (2011, background): “Without their adolesents’ frank disclosure of their whereabouts, with whom they are associating, and the activities they are engaging in, parents lack the knowledge for enabling and corrective guidance (Soenens, Vansteenkiste, Luyckx, & Goossens, 2006; Stattin & Kerr, 2000).”
Parental monitoring and adolescent problem behaviors (2016, background): “Due to the cross-sectional nature of Stattin and Kerr’s first set of studies (Kerr & Stattin, 2000; Stattin & Kerr, 2000), however, the potential reciprocity of parent and child influences could not be determined.”
Clarifying the Link between Parental Psychological Control and Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms: Reciprocal versus Unidirectional Models (2008, neutral): “…does not only affect child behavior but that children’s behavior also serves to elicit particular parental reactions (e.g., Bell & Chapman, 1986; Stattin & Kerr, 2000), there are indications that aspects of children’s earlier adjustment are predictive of parents’ later use of psychological…”
Parenting Styles and Aggressive Adolescents: Relationships with Self-esteem and Personal Maladjustment (2020, background): “By contrast, some traditional studies have been criticized for ignoring variations in warmth in families characterized by strictness (i.e., authoritative and authoritarian) (Kerr & Stattin, 2000; Stattin & Kerr, 2000).”
Perceived Parental Control and Parent–Child Relational Qualities in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong (2005, background): “Stattin and Kerr (2000) argued that parental monitoring (i.e., surveillance) is different from parental knowledge of children’s activities because parental knowledge does not necessarily involve monitoring activities, and children’s voluntary disclosure of information is crucial.”
Parenting Styles and Short- and Long-term Socialization Outcomes: A Study among Spanish Adolescents and Older Adults (2018, background): “Also, and in contrast with previous research, our findings confirm the orthogonality of the two parenting dimensions: warmth and strictness (Kerr & Stattin, 2000; Martínez & García, 2007, 2008; Martínez et al., 2017, 2019; Stattin & Kerr, 2000; Steinberg et al., 1994).”
Parental Support, Behavioral Control, and Psychological Control Among African American Youth (2006, methodology): “Behavioral control. Behavioral control was measured using a five-item parental monitoring/knowledge scale often used in the study of ethnically diverse adolescents and their families (e.g., Bradford et al., 2003; Brown, Mounts, Lamborn, & Steinberg, 1993; Stattin & Kerr, 2000 ).”
Personality traits and parenting: neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience as discriminative factors (2003, background): “Parental knowledge (often referred to as parental monitoring; Stattin & Kerr, 2000) is associated with fewer problem behaviours in children (Jacobson & Crockett, 2000).”
Risky families: family social environments and the mental and physical health of offspring. (2002, result): “This is consistent with the suggestion that most measures of parental monitoring assess open channels of communication between parent and child that reflect child disclosure at least as much as parental efforts to control and manage children (Stattin & Kerr, 2000).”
Children's aggressive and prosocial behavior in relation to war exposure: Testing the role of perceived parenting and child's gender (2006, background): “…positive parenting (for a more thorough discussion on the concept of parental behavioral control see for example Barber, 1996; Lewis, 1981; Stattin & Kerr, 2000), and also because they had low internal consistencies in the present sample (for Extreme Autonomy Cronbach alphas were .61 and…”
Stress and Coping in Childhood: The Parents' Role (2004, background): “…kept track of their adolescent’s whereabouts or activities (e.g., Chilcoat, Anthony, & Dishion, 1995; Kerr, Stattin, & Trost, 1999; Ladd & Golter, 1988; Manning, 1990; Mott, Crowe, Richardson, & Flay, 1999; Otto & Atkinson, 1997; Pagani, Boulerice, Vitaro, & Tremblay, 1999; Stattin & Kerr, 2000).”