What Can Parents Do New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem Behavior

by Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, H?kan; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.

• ISBN13: 9780470774113
• ISBN10: 0470774118
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In recent years research on parenting has changed stance from one where parents shape child outcomes to an interactive perspective. However this shift is only now transferring to adolescents, with research exploring how the roles that adolescents and parents play in their interactions can lead to problem behaviour. Part of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, this book presents the new perspective.

Author Biography

Margaret Kerr (Orebro, Sweden) is Professor of Psychology at Orebro University, Sweden.

Hakan Stattin (Orebro, Sweden) is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala and Orebro Universities, Sweden.

Rutger Engels (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) is Professor at the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, the Netherlands. They are the co-editors of Friends, Lovers and Groups (Wiley, 2007).

Table of Contents

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

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

PART 1: ADOLESCENTS AS ACTIVE AGENTS.

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

2. Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in Parent–Adolescent Relationships (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 (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 (Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Vilmante Pakalniskiene).

5. Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use (Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Jeff Kiesner).

6. Reciprocal Development of Parent–adolescent Support and Adolescent Problem Behaviors (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 (Nina S. Mounts).

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

PART 3: LESSONS FROM PARENTING RESEARCH ON YOUNGER CHILDREN.

9. Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment (Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger and Carrie E. Price).

10. What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends (Joan E. Grusec).

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

Index.