Parental Monitoring - Collateral Follow-up

This measure appears in the following time-points: Collat12, Collat24, Collat36.

Related Construct

Family Relationships

Description of Measure

The Parental Monitoring inventory (Steinberg, Dornbusch, & Darling, 1992) was adapted for this study to assess parenting practices related to supervision of the adolescent (i.e. study participant). In the collateral interview, a preliminary question determines if the collateral reporter is one of the adolescent's primary caregivers. The collateral's relationship to the adolescent establishes the skip pattern followed in the parental monitoring items - if the collateral reporter is one of the adolescent's primary caregivers, all parental monitoring items are skipped. The scale is composed of fourteen items. Five items assess parental awareness (e.g. "How much contact has X had with his/her parents by phone?", and "How much do you think X's parents knew about important things that happened to X?"). Eight additional items are asked to assess the adolescent's relationship quality with their parents (e.g. "How much time has X spent with his/her parents doing things together for fun?").

Two computed scores are available:

Parental awareness [c#parentalawareness]; mean of items five items
Relationship quality with parent [c#RQual_withParent]; mean of items eight items. Four of the eight items are reverse coded.

The following item is also available for this measure:

Whether the collateral is one of the subject's primary caregivers [C#ColPar]

Data Issues

The subscales computed for the collateral follow-ups differ from those at the subject follow-up. The collateral provides ratings on parental awareness and the subject's relationship quality with their parent, whereas the subject interview assesses parental knowledge and monitoring. Refer to the subject follow-up codebook for more information.
The Parental Monitoring measure was added to the collateral interview in version 01.08, and was asked for everyone.
In version 01.09, the interview logic was changed so that this measure was only received if the collateral reporter was NOT one of the subject's primary caregivers. All cases completed with version 01.08 will have a missing value assigned to both computed scores, since there is no way to establish if the collateral reporter was the subject's primary caregiver in this version.

References

Steinberg, L, Dornbusch, S, and Darling, N. (1992). Impact of parenting practices on adolescent achievement. Authoritative parenting, school involvement, and encouragement to succeed. Child Development, 63, 1266-1281.