Cited by 347Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentAdolescent Health and Behaviors

Perceived parental monitoring and health risk behaviors among urban low-income African-American children and adolescents

Li, Xiaoming, Feigelman, Susan, Stanton, Bonita·2000·Journal of Adolescent Health

Abstract

Purpose To examine gender and age differences among urban, low-income, African-American children and adolescents in perceived monitoring by their parents, and the association of perceived parental monitoring with family characteristics, health risk behaviors, and risk perceptions.Methods Three cross-sectional surveys were conducted in 1992 (n = 455), 1994 (n = 355), and 1996 (n = 349). Respondents aged 9-17 years were recruited from low-income urban areas including public housing communities and associated recreation centers. Both multivariate analysis of variance and correlation analysis were performed.Results Low levels of perceived parental monitoring were associated with participation in several health risk behaviors, including sexual behavior, substance/drug use, drug trafficking, school truancy, and violent behaviors. Females perceived themselves to be more monitored than did males. In general, the perceived parental monitoring tended to decrease with advancing age of the youth.Conclusions The strong inverse correlation between perceived parental monitoring and adolescent risk behavior suggests that parental monitoring initiatives may be an effective intervention tool. Longitudinal studies are needed to determine the long-term relationship between perceived parental monitoring and adolescent risk involvements.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s1054-139x(99)00077-4

Cites

32 of 32 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Lower levels of parental monitoring is predictive of a variety of adverse outcomes including school truancy, substance use, drug trafficking, antisocial behaviors, sexual activity, and violent behaviors.

    “lower levels of parental monitoring is predictive of a variety of adverse outcomes including school truancy, substance use, drug trafficking, antisocial behaviors, sexual activity, and violent behaviors [44,45].”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Li, X., Feigelman, S., & Stanton, B.
Affiliations
  • West Virginia University (US)
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
Corresponding author
Li, Xiaoming
Venue
Journal of Adolescent Health
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-07
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
43-48
ISSN
1054-139X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2137943635
Cited by
345
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 23
FWCI
20.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U01 HS07392)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 54983, U10 MH45689, R01MH054983)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
Keywords
health risk behaviors, African American adolescents, low-income urban youth, gender differences, age differences, adolescent sexual behavior, substance use, drug trafficking, truancy, violent behavior, risk perception, family factors
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Black or African American, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Maryland, Parent-Child Relations, Population Surveillance, Poverty, Risk-Taking, Sex Factors, Urban Population, Health Behavior, Multivariate Analysis, Parenting

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review