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Parental Monitoring of Adolescents: Current Perspectives for Researchers and Practitioners resources

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xv Introduction determines whether a child is behaving in accord with those expectations, also encompassing the notion of how accurate parents are in their behavioral attributions), and (c) parental behavioral inducement and enforcement (i.e., how a parent deals with behavioral transgressions from expectations and how parents encourage adolescent compliance). The framework diff ers from tra- ditional frameworks on parental monitoring in two key ways. First, it focuses on behavior-specifi c monitoring constructs rather than global monitoring constructs. Second, the framework places parental monitoring in a broader theoretical framework that gives parental monitoring more meaning. In chapters 1 through 6, the contributors not only address theoretical aspects of parental monitoring, but they also address the applied implica- tions for developing parental monitoring interventions for diverse groups of parents and adolescents. In chapter 1, Håkan Stattin, Margaret Kerr, and Lauree Tilton-Weaver focus on the relationship between parental monitor- ing knowledge, how parents acquire monitoring knowledge (e.g., through controlling eff orts or through spontaneous adolescent disclosures and adolescent adjustment), and adolescent adjustment. A central question ad- dressed in their work is why is parental knowledge linked to better adoles- cent adjustment? In response to this question, the authors describe the results of several studies of adolescents and parents that have been under- taken in Sweden. Their fi ndings call for a reinterpretation of parental monitoring eff nd both informative and provoca- ects that readers should fi tive. In addition, their work lends support for diff erentiating between the diff erent types of parental processes that contribute to parental monitor- ing, including the communication of behavioral expectations, the elicita- tion of information from adolescents that contribute to parents’ monitor- ing eff orts, and the ways in which parents enforce and induce compliance with their behavioral expectations. In chapter 2 the importance of examining parental monitoring in a broader system of parental infl Matthew uence is addressed by Robert Laird, Marrero, and Jennifer Sherwood. Laird and colleagues build upon Stattin and Kerr’s (2000) call to distinguish between monitoring processes, such as knowledge, and behavior by presenting and applying a conceptual model of developmental and interactional antecedents of monitoring knowledge. Drawing upon data from the Baton Rouge Families and Teens Project, the authors examine how attributes of the parent-adolescent relationship (such as communication, acceptance, confl ict, and trust), the monitoring processes of parental solicitation, adolescent disclosure, and the frequency of monitoring

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