Background Parental monitoring and knowledge of teenage behaviour have been widely
identified as important protective elements limiting teenage risk involvement [1-8]. However …

Objective. To compare parent and youth reports of the extent to which parents monitor their
adolescents and to determine whether parents' perceptions of parental monitoring are more …

Parental knowledge, defined as the level of knowledge that parents have of their child's
whereabouts, activities and friendships, is one of the most studied parenting practices …

Lower levels of perceived parental monitoring knowledge have been associated with
various risk behaviours among children and youth. Data from the Canadian National …

There are different elements to parental monitoring including parental knowledge and
parental control, which have differing links to child conduct problems. The aims of this study …

Recent research has challenged the established conclusion that vigilant parental monitoring
is associated with less externalizing behavior among adolescents. Measures of parental …

PURPOSE: To assess:(a) the relative impact of monitoring and peer involvement among six
cohorts of African-American youth in their mid-adolescent years, over a decade of research …

Understanding the drivers of adolescent risky behaviour is important given the costs that
such behaviours impose on society and young people themselves. Evidence shows that …

The presence of parents or other guardians (commonly termed 'supervision') and parental
knowledge are factors that are both robustly negatively associated with a range of anti-social …

Objectives 1) To use national, longitudinal data to describe patterns of perceived parental
monitoring among Canadian children through the early adolescent years (ages 10 to 15 …