Finding

 


This finding looks at the relationship between parents' monitoring television viewing and adolescents' sexual behavior.

The more often parents watched television with their teens and the more they limited television viewing, the less likely adolescents were to have sex.


Sample or Data Description
887 participants in a three-wave longitudinal study of adolescents in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles County.


Source
"Parenting Practices and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: A Longitudinal Study"
Bersamin, Melina
Todd, Michael, Fisher, Deborah A.; Hill, Douglas L.; Grube, Joel W.; and Walker, Samantha
Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 70, Number . February, 2008. Page(s) 97-112.


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