University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Oct;37(19-20):NP19216-NP19227. doi: 10.1177/08862605211035882. Epub 2021 Aug 4.
Youth violence victimization continues to be pervasive and a significant cause of adolescent mortality. Since their 2014 "Connecting the Dots" report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have encouraged researchers to identify shared protective factors that prevent multiple forms of youth violence. Parental monitoring, a bidirectional construct encompassing parental knowledge and regulation of their child's activities with children's concurrent perception of their parent's awareness of such activities, could be such a cross-cutting protective factor. In this study, we examined associations between parental monitoring and multiple types of violence victimization among a school-based sample of adolescents. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of an anonymous survey of health risk and protective behaviors completed by students across Pittsburgh Public Schools ( = 2,426). In separate analyses, we used logistic regression to examine associations between youth-reported parental monitoring and multiple experiences of youth violence victimization, ranging from school- and electronic-based bullying to different forms of sexual and physical violence. We found that many experiences of youth violence victimization were consistent with nationally representative data. In addition, we determined that higher parental monitoring was significantly and inversely associated with all violence victimization outcomes examined (school-based bullying, electronic-based bullying, threatening someone with a weapon, adolescent relationship abuse, sexual assault, and exchange sex) at the < .05 threshold. Overall, this study is one of the first that examines how parental monitoring relates to multiple forms of youth violence victimization, including exchange sex, which is a critical but less-studied violence experience. This work adds to the growing literature on how parental monitoring may serve as a shared protective factor for multiple forms of violence victimization.
青少年暴力受害仍然普遍存在，是青少年死亡的一个重要原因。自 2014 年发布“连接点”报告以来，美国疾病控制与预防中心一直鼓励研究人员确定预防多种形式青少年暴力的共同保护因素。父母监督是一种交叉保护因素，它包含父母对孩子活动的了解和对孩子活动的监管，以及孩子对父母对这些活动的了解的感知。在这项研究中，我们研究了父母监督与基于学校的青少年样本中多种类型暴力受害之间的关联。我们对匹兹堡公立学校（=2426）的学生完成的健康风险和保护行为匿名调查进行了横断面分析。在单独的分析中，我们使用逻辑回归来检验青年报告的父母监督与多种青年暴力受害经历之间的关联，这些经历从基于学校和电子的欺凌到不同形式的性暴力和身体暴力。我们发现，许多青少年暴力受害经历与全国代表性数据一致。此外，我们确定较高的父母监督与所有研究的暴力受害结果呈显著负相关（基于学校的欺凌、基于电子的欺凌、用武器威胁某人、青少年关系虐待、性侵犯和交换性），这在 <.05 阈值。总的来说，这项研究是最早研究父母监督与多种形式的青少年暴力受害（包括交换性）之间关系的研究之一，这是一种关键但研究较少的暴力经历。这项工作增加了关于父母监督如何作为多种形式的暴力受害的共同保护因素的日益增多的文献。
