Finding

 


This finding looks at the relationship between parental monitoring and adolescents’ alcohol use.

Adolescents subjected to more parental monitoring had, on average, lower initial levels of alcohol use (an index measure based on the volume and frequency of consumption) and slower rates of increase in drinking as they grew older.


Sample or Data Description
The study used a six-wave longitudinal (1989-1996) sample of 506 adolescents randomly selected from the Buffalo, NY, area.


Source
"The Effects of Parenting on the Development of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse: A Six-Wave Latent Growth Model"
Barnes, Grace M.
Reifman, Alan S., Farrell, Michael P.; and Dintcheff, Barbara A.
Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol. 62, Number 1. February , 2000. Page(s) 175-186.


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