Adolescent Misbehavior
Poor parental monitoring has been associated with a wide range of adolescent behavior problems that include delinquency; tobacco, alcohol, and drug use; and violence, In addition, parental monitoring may buffer the impact of negative risk factors such as genetic vulnerability proactive aggressive behaviors and exposure to sexual abuse peer pressure neighborhood risk or community violence. Not surprisingly, clinical and educational interventions to reduce adolescent problem behavior often instruct parents to supervise their children better. These instructions often focus on increasing parents' attention to and tracking (i.e., through parental involvement and solicitation of information from the child, friends, or their parents) or control (i.e., setting limits, curfews, and requiring permission) of their children’s activities or whereabouts. Little is known about why adolescents disclose behaviors to parents. The limited studies examining adolescent disclosure suggest it may be increased by authoritative parenting responsive parenting a positive parent-child relationship more leisure time spent with parents and less with peers adolescents beliefs in the legitimacy of parental authority and trust in their parent's positive reactions to adolescent disclosure and adolescents personality. Parents' active monitoring (i.e., tracking and control) increased disclosure in three studies and had no effects in another. Finally, there is some evidence for adolescent’s negative behaviors decreasing the likelihood of disclosure and child disclosure affecting parents tracking and control. This information can be published in our peer-reviewed journal with impact factors and are calculated using citations not only from research articles but also review articles (which tend to receive more citations), editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, short communications, and case reports. The inclusion of these publications provides the opportunity for editors and publishers to manipulate the ratio used to calculate the impact factor and try to increase their number rapidly. The impact factor plays a major role for the particular journal. Journal with higher impact factor is considered to be more important than other ones.
Last Updated on: Nov 27, 2024