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7 - Intrusive Parenting and Adolescent Information Management

from Part II - Reconsidering Parenting and Parental Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

By
Laura M. Padilla-Walker ,
Meg O. Jankovich  and
Corinne Archibald
Edited by
Judith G. Smetana ,
Nicole Campione-Barr  and
Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver
Judith G. Smetana
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, New York
Nicole Campione-Barr
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia
Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver
Affiliation:
Örebro University
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Summary

In this chapter we focus on associations between intrusive parenting, the parent–adolescent relationship, and adolescents’ information management strategies. Theoretically, parenting that threatens adolescents’ autonomy leads to suboptimal adolescent adjustment. We discuss when overprotective parenting, psychological control, behavioral control, and helicopter parenting may be intrusive and how they are associated with the parent–adolescent relationship and adolescent information management. We also consider parental intrusiveness and adolescents’ information management in two specific contexts, namely in relation to adolescents’ sexuality and media use. We suggest that an intrusive parenting environment is not the optimal way to promote healthy adolescent information management.

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Intrusive parentingadolescent information managementparental controlpsychological controlhelicopter parentingmediasexuality
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The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence , pp. 138 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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