Ellis Deborah A, Templin Thomas N, Naar-King Sylvie, Frey Maureen A
Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, USA.
J Pediatr Psychol. 2008 Sep;33(8):799-808. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsn044. Epub 2008 May 8.
Parental monitoring has been defined as "a set of correlated parenting behaviors involving attention to and tracking of the child's whereabouts, activities, and adaptations." This construct is of significant interest due to its relatedness to a broad range of youth risk behaviors, including risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, and poor adherence. However, to date, measures of parental monitoring are largely absent from the chronic illness literature. The present article focuses upon two key problems in the operationalization of the monitoring construct to date: (a) poor conceptual specificity in parenting constructs such as monitoring, overprotection, and over-involvement when used to date among youth with chronic conditions and (b) the confounding of existing measures of parental monitoring with items evaluating parental knowledge of youth activities, which has resulted in a lack of data regarding the mechanisms by which parents obtain their information. Recommendations for the future development of monitoring measures are discussed.
父母监督被定义为“一系列相互关联的养育行为，包括关注和追踪孩子的行踪、活动及适应情况”。这一概念因与广泛的青少年风险行为相关而备受关注，这些风险行为包括危险性行为、药物滥用和依从性差等。然而，迄今为止，慢性病文献中基本没有父母监督的相关测量方法。本文聚焦于目前监督概念操作化过程中的两个关键问题：（a）在用于慢性病青少年时，诸如监督、过度保护和过度参与等养育概念的概念特异性较差；（b）父母监督的现有测量方法与评估父母对青少年活动了解情况的项目相互混淆，这导致缺乏关于父母获取信息机制的数据。文中还讨论了监督测量方法未来发展的建议。
