Concerns about parenting adolescents are not new, but the rapid diffusion of digital
technologies has heightened anxieties over digital parenting. Findings are decidedly mixed …

Parental monitoring is a construct of longstanding interest in multiple fields—but what is it?
This paper makes two contributions to the ongoing debate. First, we review how the …

This article aims to provide a critical analysis of how much we know about the effectiveness
of parental monitoring in preventing adolescent delinquency. First, it describes the historical …

This study examined how parent–child communication regarding adolescent unsupervised
activities develops over the course of adolescence. We used questionnaire data from 390 …

Over the last 35 years I have worked with gifted colleagues to develop and test the tenets of
the Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theoretical perspective. 1 To date, a corpus …

For families, managing private information is challenging. Family members reveal too much,
they allow more privacy access to outsiders than others desire, parents attempt to negotiate …

This study investigated parental psychological control of adolescents when construed as
disrespect of individuality. First, 120 adolescents from 5 cultures were interviewed and …

This 4-wave study among 309 Dutch adolescents and their parents examined changes in
adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control and their links with the …

Children's empathy and prosocial behavior play an important role in their social
competence. Of the influential factors, research has demonstrated that parental behaviors …

Researchers have sought to understand the processes that may promote effective parent–
adolescent communication because of the strong links to adolescent adjustment …