Parenting Practices and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms in the United States, 1991-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Adolescent internalizing symptoms are increasing in the United States. Changes in parenting practices, including monitoring and communication, have been hypothesized to contribute to these increases. We aimed to estimate trends in parenting practices and understand whether shifts in such practices explain increases in internalizing symptoms.

Methods

Using 1991-2019 Monitoring the Future data (N = 933,645), we examined trends in five parental practices (i.e., knowledge [three combined indicators], monitoring [four combined indicators], communication, weekend curfew, social permission) with ordinal regressions. We tested associations between parental practices and indicators of being in the top decile of depressive affect, low self-esteem, and self-derogation using sur

SUBMITTER: Kreski NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11618881 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature