Warmth and legitimacy beliefs contextualize adolescents' negative reactions to parental monitoring |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada;2. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada;3. Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veteran''s Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2E2, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada;5. Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B5E1, Canada;1. Wayne State University, United States;2. The University of Texas at Dallas, United States |
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| Abstract: | This study sought to identify conditions under which parents' monitoring behaviors are most strongly linked to adolescents' negative reactions (i.e., feelings of being controlled and invaded). 242 adolescents (49.2% male; M age = 15.4 years) residing in the United States of America reported parental monitoring and warmth, and their own feelings of being controlled and invaded and beliefs in the legitimacy of parental authority. Analyses tested whether warmth and legitimacy beliefs moderate and/or suppress the link between parents' monitoring behaviors and adolescents' negative reactions. Monitoring was associated with more negative reactions, controlling for legitimacy beliefs and warmth. More monitoring was associated with more negative reactions only at weaker levels of legitimacy beliefs, and at lower levels of warmth. The link between monitoring and negative reactions is sensitive to the context within which monitoring occurs with the strongest negative reactions found in contexts characterized by low warmth and weak legitimacy beliefs. |
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| Keywords: | Parental monitoring Authority beliefs Warmth Parenting Privacy |
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