The Cambridge Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Information Management during Adolescence

A vital synthesis of research on parenting, parent–adolescent relationships, disclosure, secrecy, and their role in youth development.

Judith G. Smetana (Edited by), Nicole Campione-Barr (Edited by), Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver (Edited by)

9781009418607, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 December 2024

426 pages
26.2 x 18.5 x 3 cm, 0.95 kg

'Developmentally-nurturant relationships are the foundational bases of thriving across the life span, and this unique and timely handbook brings together the world's leading scholars studying a prime instance of such relationships, those involving parents and their adolescent children. Researchers, students, and practitioners will find this volume to be an essential resource for cutting-edge, theoretically framed, and methodologically rigorous information about how to understand and enhance the diversity of these relationships across adolescence.' Richard Lerner, Professor and Bergstrom Chair, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and Applied Developmental Science, Tufts University

Delve into the ideal resource for theory and research on parental monitoring and adolescents' disclosure to and concealment from parents. This handbook presents ground-breaking research exploring how adolescents respond to parents' attempts to control and manage their activities and feelings. The chapters highlight how adolescents' responses are as important for their mental health and behavior as parents' attempts to regulate them. Examining responsive, intrusive, and invasive parenting behaviors, the volume addresses modern challenges like monitoring in the digital age and medical decision-making. It covers cutting-edge research on diverse cultures and groups including Latinx, Turkish, Chinese, LGBTQ+, and chronically ill youth. The internationally recognized contributors offer insights from different theoretical perspectives and describe novel methodological approaches, focusing on variations across different developmental stages, contexts, and cultures.

Part I. History of the Field and Theoretical Frameworks: 1. A historical overview of the field Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall
2. Privacy invasion and communication theories Skyler T. Hawk and Shisang Peng
3. Parenting and adolescent information management from the social-cognitive domain theory perspective Judith Smetana
4. How can parents monitor adolescents' activities and encourage volitional disclosure? A self-determination theory perspective Bart Soenens and Maarten Vansteenkiste
5. Bidirectional models and transactional approaches to parental monitoring Loes Keijsers
Part II. Reconsidering Parenting and Parental Knowledge: 6. Sources and predictors of parental knowledge about adolescents' activities Christy M. Buchanan and Şule Selçuk
7. Intrusive parenting and adolescent information management Laura M. Padilla-Walker. Meg O. Jankovich and Corinne Archibald
8. Parental guilt induction, shaming, and adolescent information management Wendy M. Rote, Abigail R. Engle and Grace R. Blackard
9. Parent-adolescent emotion dynamics and adolescent disclosure Alexandra Main and Janice Disla
10. Parental monitoring in the digital age Ine Beyens, Patti M. Valkenburg and Loes H. C. Janssen
Part III. Informant and Contextual Differences in Disclosure and Secrecy: 11. Types of concealment and implications for adjustment in adolescent-parent relationships Robert D. Laird and Megan M. Zeringue
12. The role of self-disclosure and secrecy in adolescent-parent relationships Catrin Finkenauer, Tom Frijns and Birol Akkuş
13. Adolescent lying to parents and resistance to parental authority Matthew Gingo
14. Adolescent disclosure with parents versus siblings and friends Nicole Campione-Barr, Yue Guo and Amanda J. Rose
15. Disclosure and secrecy in Turkish families Ayfer Dost-Gözkan
16. Familism values and disclosure among Latinx youth Sarah E. Killoren, Avelina Rivero and Mayra Y. Bámaca
17. Self-disclosure and 'coming out' to parents among LGBTQ youth Amy L. McCurdy and Stephen T. Russell
Part IV. Applications: 18. Disclosure in adolescents and emerging adults with chronic illness Cynthia A. Berg and Anisha Marion
19. Information management and adolescent health: privacy and disclosure Nancy Darling.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]