Sentences with phrase «perceived less monitoring»

Scale scores between 17 and 26 represented the group who perceived less monitoring was needed and scores equal to 27 represented views that parental monitoring was about the same.

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Fig 1 illustrates the mean differences in adolescent disclosure and perceived monitoring knowledge based on whether adolescents perceived their parents as needing to monitor more or less than a «good parent» or maintain the same amount of monitoring.

Adolescents may compare their parents» monitoring efforts to a perceived social standard, and, if divergent from such standard, they may be less likely to self - disclose, more likely to perceive their parents» monitoring to be limiting, and more likely to engage in risk behaviors.

Adolescents who viewed their parents as needing to monitor more were less likely to disclose information to their parents (p <.001), less likely to perceive their parents as having greater monitoring knowledge (p <.001), and more likely to be involved in a risk behaviors (p <.001) than adolescents who perceived their parents needed no change.

Similarly, when using the «good parent» scale score across all of these areas, our findings illustrate that a total of 50 adolescents (9.6 %) believed their parents needed to do more monitoring across these areas as a whole; 84 (15.8 %) adolescents believed their parents needed to monitor them less, and the remaining 387 (73.0 %) perceived their parents» monitoring to adequately compare to what a «good parent» should do.

Likewise, adolescents who perceive their parents as needing to monitor less may represent those whose parents engage in authoritarian parenting.