CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 653Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthAdolescent Health and BehaviorsChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Parental monitoring: association with adolescents' risk behaviors

DiClemente, Ralph J., Wingood, Gina M., Crosby, Richard, Sionean, Catlainn, Cobb, Brenda K., Harrington, Kathy, Davies, Susan, Hook, Edward W. +1 more·2001·PEDIATRICS
DOI 10.1542/peds.107.6.1363
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

CONTEXT: Contemporary threats to adolescents' health are primarily the consequence of risk behaviors and their related adverse outcomes. Identifying factors associated with adolescents' risk behaviors is critical for developing effective prevention strategies. A number of risk factors have been identified, including familial environment; however, few studies have examined the impact of parental monitoring. OBJECTIVE: To examine the influence of less perceived parental monitoring on a spectrum of adolescent health-compromising behaviors and outcomes. Design. Survey. SETTING: A family medicine clinic. Participants. To assess eligibility, recruiters screened a sample of 1130 teens residing in low-income neighborhoods. Adolescents were eligible if they were black females, between the ages of 14 and 18 years, sexually active in the previous 6 months, and provided written informed consent. Most teens (n = 609) were eligible, with 522 (85.7%) agreeing to participate. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Variables in 6 domains were assessed, including: sexually transmitted diseases, sexual behaviors, marijuana use, alcohol use, antisocial behavior, and violence. RESULTS: In logistic regression analyses, controlling for observed covariates, adolescents perceiving less parental monitoring were more likely to test positive for a sexually transmitted disease (odds ratio [OR]: 1.7), report not using a condom at last sexual intercourse (OR: 1.7), have multiple sexual partners in the past 6 months (OR: 2.0), have risky sex partners (OR: 1.5), have a new sex partner in the past 30 days (OR: 3.0), and not use any contraception during the last sexual intercourse episode (OR: 1.9). Furthermore, adolescents perceiving less parental monitoring were more likely to have a history of marijuana use and use marijuana more often in the past 30 days (OR: 2.3 and OR: 2.5, respectively); a history of alcohol use and greater alcohol consumption in the past 30 days (OR: 1.4 and OR: 1.9, respectively); have a history of arrest (OR: 2.1); and there was a trend toward having engaged in fights in the past 6 months (OR: 1.4). CONCLUSIONS: The findings demonstrate a consistent pattern of health risk behaviors and adverse biological outcomes associated with less perceived parental monitoring. Additional research needs to focus on developing theoretical models that help explain the influence of familial environment on adolescent health and develop and evaluate interventions to promote the health of adolescents.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1542/peds.107.6.1363

Cites

57 of 57 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?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
DiClemente, R. J., Wingood, G. M., Crosby, R., Sionean, C., Cobb, B. K., Harrington, K., Davies, S., Hook, E. W., & Oh, M. K.
Affiliations
  • Emory University (US)
  • From the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia; the
  • University of Alabama (US)
ORCID
Venue
PEDIATRICS
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Published
2001-06-01
Volume
107
Issue
6
Pages
1363-1368
ISSN
  • 0031-4005 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-4275
DOI
10.1542/peds.107.6.1363
OpenAlex
W1984272945
Cited by
653
References
57
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 50 · 2014: 45 · 2013: 39 · 2012: 49
FWCI
33.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • PEDIATRICS (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH054412, 1R01 MH 54412)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
parental supervision, adolescent risk behavior, sexually transmitted infections, adolescent sexual behavior, condom use, multiple sexual partners, cannabis use, alcohol consumption, antisocial behavior, violence, arrest history, family environment, low-income youth, Black adolescents
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Black or African American, Marijuana Abuse, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Perception, Risk-Taking, Sexual Behavior, Sex Factors, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Violence

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