Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I History of the Field and Theoretical Frameworks
- 1 A Historical Overview of the Field
- 2 Privacy Invasion and Communication Theories
- 3 Parenting and Adolescent Information Management from the Social-Cognitive Domain Theory Perspective
- 4 How Can Parents Monitor Adolescents’ Activities and Encourage Volitional Disclosure?
- 5 Bidirectional Models and Transactional Approaches to Parental Monitoring
- Part II Reconsidering Parenting and Parental Knowledge
- Part III Informant and Contextual Differences in Disclosure and Secrecy
- Part IV Applications
- Index
- References
5 - Bidirectional Models and Transactional Approaches to Parental Monitoring
from Part I - History of the Field and Theoretical Frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I History of the Field and Theoretical Frameworks
- 1 A Historical Overview of the Field
- 2 Privacy Invasion and Communication Theories
- 3 Parenting and Adolescent Information Management from the Social-Cognitive Domain Theory Perspective
- 4 How Can Parents Monitor Adolescents’ Activities and Encourage Volitional Disclosure?
- 5 Bidirectional Models and Transactional Approaches to Parental Monitoring
- Part II Reconsidering Parenting and Parental Knowledge
- Part III Informant and Contextual Differences in Disclosure and Secrecy
- Part IV Applications
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter challenges the traditional unidirectional view of parental monitoring by presenting a novel theoretical dynamic process model of parent–adolescent communication in which parents and adolescents causally influence each other. A review of empirical studies highlights that adolescents are active agents who strategically manage information from their parents. However, few studies have subjected the frequently hypothesized bidirectional processes to more rigorous within-family tests. Six studies with yearly intervals suggest that parent–adolescent communication about adolescent activities is bidirectionally related to adolescent outcomes. A handful of daily diary studies suggest that adolescents disclose more on days when there is more parental monitoring and when the quality of the relationship is better. What remains to be empirically determined is how real-time and everyday family functioning may explain the development of adolescent functioning. The chapter concludes with a discussion of four potential open questions for future research on transactional monitoring processes.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence , pp. 90 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024