The influence of youth and parent reports of parental knowledge and monitoring and reporting discrepancy on high risk youth offending
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2021-12
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Armstrong, Gaylene S.
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Elsevier Ltd.
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Introduction
Positive parenting practices are known to be related to lower levels of youth offending. Questions remain as to the overlap between youth and parent perceptions of parenting practices, and the relationship of perception discrepancies with youth offending. This study examines the concordance of parenting behaviors reports, the relationship between parent and youth perceptions of parenting measures with youth offending, and whether discordant youth and parent reports are related to heterogeneity in youth offending.
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Survey data from 818 high risk U.S. youth averaging 16 years old who participated in the Pathways to Desistance study and his or her parent form the basis of this analysis.
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Results demonstrate youth and parent reports of parental knowledge and parental monitoring are correlated, yet independent predictors of youth offending variety scores. Youth and parent reports about parenting measures demonstrate youth offending is highest when youth perceive parents as uninvolved, and lowest when youth estimates of parental knowledge and monitoring are higher than parent estimates. Parenting matters for high-risk youth, especially in reducing the likelihood of property offending. Using multiple perspectives to assess parenting practices is important in studying these dyadic relationships.
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This is a manuscript of an article published as Bouffard, Leana A., and Gaylene S. Armstrong. "The influence of youth and parent reports of parental knowledge and monitoring and reporting discrepancy on high risk youth offending." Journal of Adolescence 93 (2021): 146-160.
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.10.009.
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