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Toward Conceptual Clarity in a Critical Parenting Construct: Parental Monitoring in Youth with Chronic Illness
- Source :
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 33:799-808
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2008.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Self Disclosure
Activities of daily living
Adolescent
Social Environment
Developmental psychology
Individuation
Risk-Taking
Activities of Daily Living
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Parent-Child Relations
Set (psychology)
Operationalization
Parenting
Sick role
Sick Role
Social environment
Social Control, Informal
medicine.disease
Substance abuse
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Series on Methodology
Chronic Disease
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Self-disclosure
Construct (philosophy)
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1465735X and 01468693
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7b7e0a2cdf6e069953c6f88bbe5b17c7