TY - JOUR
T1 - The interplay of parental monitoring and socioeconomic status in predicting minor delinquency between and within adolescents
AU - Rekker, Roderik
AU - Keijsers, Loes
AU - Branje, Susan
AU - Koot, Hans
AU - Meeus, Wim
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - This six-wave multi-informant longitudinal study on Dutch adolescents (N = 824; age 12–18) examined the interplay of socioeconomic status with parental monitoring in predicting minor delinquency. Fixed-effects negative binomial regression analyses revealed that this interplay is different within adolescents across time than between adolescents. Between individuals, parental solicitation and control were not significantly associated with delinquency after controlling for SES: Adolescents whose parents exercised more monitoring did not offend less than others. Within individuals, higher levels of parental control were unexpectedly associated with more delinquency, but this relation was dependent on SES: Low-SES adolescents, but not high-SES adolescents, offended more during periods in which their parents exercised more control than during other periods with less control. In contrast to earlier work, this finding suggests that monitoring could be least effective when needed most. Low-SES parents might not use monitoring effectively and become overcontrolling when their child goes astray.
AB - This six-wave multi-informant longitudinal study on Dutch adolescents (N = 824; age 12–18) examined the interplay of socioeconomic status with parental monitoring in predicting minor delinquency. Fixed-effects negative binomial regression analyses revealed that this interplay is different within adolescents across time than between adolescents. Between individuals, parental solicitation and control were not significantly associated with delinquency after controlling for SES: Adolescents whose parents exercised more monitoring did not offend less than others. Within individuals, higher levels of parental control were unexpectedly associated with more delinquency, but this relation was dependent on SES: Low-SES adolescents, but not high-SES adolescents, offended more during periods in which their parents exercised more control than during other periods with less control. In contrast to earlier work, this finding suggests that monitoring could be least effective when needed most. Low-SES parents might not use monitoring effectively and become overcontrolling when their child goes astray.
KW - Adolescent delinquency
KW - Neighborhoods
KW - Parental monitoring
KW - Socioeconomic status
KW - Within-individual
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U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.06.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 28672155
AN - SCOPUS:85021395619
VL - 59
SP - 155
EP - 165
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
SN - 0140-1971
ER -