Parental monitoring, adolescent dishonesty and underage drinking: A nationally representative study

Little research has connected underage drinking with adolescent information management strategies. The present study uses longitudinal analyses to theoretically link adolescent lying with parental “monitoring knowledge,” and, in turn, with prospective adolescent drinking, in a large nationally repre...

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Published in:Journal of adolescence (London, England.) Vol. 57; pp. 99 - 107
Main Authors: Lushin, Viktor, Jaccard, James, Kaploun, Victor
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2017
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Alcohol Education
Alcohol use
Childrearing practices
Consumption
Deception
Dishonesty
Drinking
Drinking age
Drinking behavior
Female
Humans
Information management
Lying
Male
Mothers
Parent-Child Relations
Parental control
Parenting - psychology
Parenting style
Parents & parenting
Pediatrics
Prospective Studies
Satisfaction
Strategies
Structural equation modeling
Structural Equation Models
Teenagers
Underage drinking
Underage Drinking - psychology
United States
United States > US
ISSN:0140-1971, 1095-9254, 1095-9254
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Summary:Little research has connected underage drinking with adolescent information management strategies. The present study uses longitudinal analyses to theoretically link adolescent lying with parental “monitoring knowledge,” and, in turn, with prospective adolescent drinking, in a large nationally representative sample of U.S. seventh- and eighth-graders (N = 4020). Structural equation modeling evaluated and supported, two key hypotheses: (1) dishonesty promotes future alcohol use by decreasing parental monitoring knowledge, and (2) dishonesty directly predicts alcohol consumption independent of its effects on parental monitoring. Maternal warmth and adolescent satisfaction with maternal relationships, but not parental control, were associated with lessened lying, and predicted parental monitoring and underage drinking. Our data implicate the role of adolescent agency for parental monitoring and highlight advantages of cohesive as opposed to over-restrictive parenting.
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ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
1095-9254
DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.04.003