Poor parental monitoring has long been associated with a number of adolescent health risk
behaviors. Recent studies assert that parental monitoring is actually parental knowledge …

Purpose: To determine the stability of perceived parental monitoring over time and its long-
term effect on health risk behaviors among low-income, urban African-American children …

Context. Contemporary threats to adolescents' health are primarily the consequence of risk
behaviors and their related adverse outcomes. Identifying factors associated with …

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 …

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 …

Purpose: To examine gender and age differences among urban, low-income, African-
American children and adolescents in perceived monitoring by their parents, and the …

Although parental monitoring has received considerable attention in studies of US
adolescents, few published studies have examined how parents′ knowledge of their …

The aim of this article is to describe the development and validation of the Parental
Monitoring Instrument (PMI). The PMI was administered to a sample of 518 parent …

In this study, we examined how adolescents compare monitoring efforts by their parents to
those of a" good parent" standard and assessed the impact of these comparisons on …

PURPOSE: To explore: 1) parent-adolescent discrepancies on adolscent risk involvement;
2) factors related to parental overestimates and/or underestimates of specific adolescent risk …