Parental Monitoring, Parental Knowledge, and the Occurrence of Potentially Traumatic Events in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Parental monitoring and knowledge of their teens' activities might enable parents to keep teens safe, reducing the risk of potentially traumatic events. This paper investigated that possibility using a large, nationwide sample of 11,880 early adolescent teens followed longitudinally from ages 10-11 to 13-14 years old. At annual assessments, teens completed measures of parental monitoring/knowledge and of potentially traumatic events. Data were analyzed using multilevel models to separate between- and within-family associations. Because within-family associations cannot be explained by the many systematic differences between families with low vs. high monitoring, they comprise more rigorous evidence of a potential causal relationship. We tested both concurrent associations between monitorin

SUBMITTER: Aks IR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11845286 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature