Yang Panpan, Lippold Melissa A, Schlomer Gabriel L, Feinberg Mark E, Fosco Gregory M
Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University.
The School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Appl Dev Sci. 2024;28(3):375-390. doi: 10.1080/10888691.2023.2221437. Epub 2023 Jun 15.
Studies that distinguish parental monitoring (parent-driven behaviors) from parental knowledge often fail to find protective effects of monitoring on adolescent behavior problems. To answer whether parental monitoring is more strongly associated with adolescent behavior problems among adolescents who may need it most, this study applied group-based trajectory modeling to change in early- to mid-adolescent aggressive behavior problems and examined associations between parental monitoring with different subgroups. Three latent groups of adolescents were found: Low Aggression, Medium-Increasing Aggression, and High-Increasing Aggression. Results show that more maternal and paternal monitoring were associated with fewer adolescent aggressive behavior problems only for adolescents in the High-Increasing Group. This result suggests that parental monitoring is a protective factor against adolescent aggressive behavior problems for subgroups of adolescents who may need it most and less impactful for other adolescents.
那些将父母监督（父母主导的行为）与父母知晓情况区分开来的研究，往往未能发现监督对青少年行为问题具有保护作用。为了回答在可能最需要监督的青少年中，父母监督是否与青少年行为问题有更强的关联，本研究应用基于群体的轨迹模型来分析青少年早期至中期攻击性行为问题的变化，并考察父母监督与不同亚组之间的关联。研究发现了青少年的三个潜在群体：低攻击性群体、中等攻击性上升群体和高攻击性上升群体。结果表明，只有高攻击性上升群体中的青少年，更多的母亲和父亲监督才与更少的青少年攻击性行为问题相关。这一结果表明，父母监督对于可能最需要监督的青少年亚组而言，是预防青少年攻击性行为问题的一个保护因素，而对其他青少年的影响较小。
