Abstract

Studies that distinguish parental monitoring (parent-driven behaviors) from parental knowledge often fail to find protective effects of monitoring on adolescent behavior problems. To answer whether parental monitoring is more strongly associated with adolescent behavior problems among adolescents who may need it most, this study applied group-based trajectory modeling to change in early- to mid-adolescent aggressive behavior problems and examined associations between parental monitoring with different subgroups. Three latent groups of adolescents were found: Low Aggression, Medium-Increasing Aggression, and High-Increasing Aggression. Results show that more maternal and paternal monitoring were associated with fewer adolescent aggressive behavior problems only for adolescents in the High-Increasing Group. This result suggests that parental monitoring is a protective factor against adolescent aggressive behavior problems for subgroups of adolescents who may need it most and less impactful for other adolescents.

摘要

将父母监控（父母驱动行为）与父母知识区分开来的研究往往无法发现监控对青少年行为问题的保护作用。为了回答父母监控是否与最需要父母监控的青少年的行为问题更密切相关，本研究应用基于群体的轨迹模型来改变青春期早期到中期的攻击性行为问题，并检查了父母监控与不同亚组之间的关联。发现了三个潜在的青少年群体：低攻击性、中等攻击性和高攻击性。结果表明，更多的母亲和父亲监测与较少的青少年攻击性行为问题相关，仅适用于高增长组的青少年。