What Can Parents Do: New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem Behavior (Hot Topics in Developmental Reserrch - A Series of Three Edited Volumes)

305 Pages·2008·2.34 MB·English

by  Margaret Kerr

What Can Parents Do?

New Insights into the Role of Parents in

Adolescent Problem Behavior

Edited by

Margaret Kerr
¨
Center for Developmental Research, Orebro University, Sweden

Håkan Stattin
¨
Center for Developmental Research, Orebro University, Sweden

Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands
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What Can Parents Do?

New Insights into the Role of Parents in

Adolescent Problem Behavior

Edited by

Margaret Kerr
¨
Center for Developmental Research, Orebro University, Sweden

Håkan Stattin
¨
Center for Developmental Research, Orebro University, Sweden

Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands
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Contents

About the Editors vii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: What’s Changed in Research on Parenting and
Adolescent Problem Behavior and What Needs to Change? 1
Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Rutger C. M. E. Engels

PART 1: ADOLESCENTS AS ACTIVE AGENTS 9

1 Adolescents’ Agency in Information Management 11
Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall

2 Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in

Parent–Adolescent Relationships 43

Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Kaska E. Kubacka

3 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Your Mom and Dad): Disclosure and
Nondisclosure in Adolescent–parent Relationships 65
Judith G. Smetana and Aaron Metzger

PART 2: THE ROLES OF ADOLESCENT AGENCY AND
PARENTING EFFORTS IN RELATIONSHIPS AND
ADJUSTMENT 89

4 Parents React to Adolescent Problem Behaviors by Worrying
More and Monitoring Less 91
Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Vilmante Pakalniskiene

5 Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in

Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use 113

Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Jeff Kiesner
vi CONTENTS
6 Reciprocal Development of Parent–adolescent Support and
Adolescent Problem Behaviors 135
Susan J. T. Branje, William W. Hale III and Wim H. J. Meeus
7 Linkages between Parenting and Peer Relationships: A Model
for Parental Management of Adolescents’ Peer Relationships 163

Nina S. Mounts

8 From Coercion to Positive Parenting: Putting Divorced
Mothers in Charge of Change 191
Marion S. Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson and
David S. DeGarmo

PART 3: LESSONS FROM PARENTING RESEARCH ON

YOUNGER CHILDREN 211

9 Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting
Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment 213
Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger and Carrie E. Price
10 What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends 239

Joan E. Grusec

11 Positive Parenting and Positive Characteristics and Values
in Children 259
Marc H. Bornstein

Index 285
About the Editors

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Margaret Kerr is Professor of Psychology at Orebro University, Sweden,
and Co-director of the Center for Developmental Research. She earned her
PhD at Cornell University, USA, and then completed a postdoctoral research
fellowshipwithRichardTremblayattheUniversityofMontreal,Canada.She
is an associate editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence. Her research
focuses on internal and external adjustment in adolescents and their roles in
the life course. Her current research interests include adolescents’ choices of
developmental contexts and parent–child relationships and their role in the
development of delinquency.

¨
HåkanStattinisProfessorofPsychologyatUppsalaandOrebroUniversities,
Sweden. He earned his PhD at Stockholm University. He directs the Center
forDevelopmentalResearchatO¨rebroUniversityandhasservedasPresident
oftheEuropeanAssociationforResearchonAdolescenceandassociateeditor
for the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. He is probably best known
forhisresearchinthreeareas:delinquencydevelopment,pubertalmaturation
in adolescent girls, and parental monitoring. His works include an authored
book (with David Magnusson in 1990), Pubertal Maturation in Female Devel-
opment. In addition to his continued basic research in these areas he is
conducting prevention trials to reduce alcohol drinking and delinquency
among adolescents.

Rutger C. M. E. Engels is Professor in Family Psychology at the Behavioural
Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, since 2001.
He obtained his PhD at the Department of Medical Sociology, Maastricht
Universityin1998.Sincethenhehasworkedforthreeyearsasapost-doctoral
researcherandassistantprofessorattheDepartmentofChildandAdolescent
Studies, Utrecht University. He is involved in fundamental research on the
linkbetween(social)environmentalinfluencesonadolescentandyoungadult
substance use and delinquency.
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