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Does Your Mother Know?

Does Your Mother Know?. Parent-adolescent communication from a developmental, bidirectional and contextual perspective. Loes Keijsers. Late start Minor delinquency Common. Moffitt, 1993. Dissertation.

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Does Your Mother Know?

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  1. Does Your Mother Know? Parent-adolescent communication from a developmental, bidirectional and contextual perspective. Loes Keijsers

  2. Late start Minor delinquency Common Moffitt, 1993

  3. Dissertation • Can (changes in) communication of adolescents and parents explain why many adolescents engage in minor delinquency? • Longitudinal studies • Today: some findings highlighted

  4. Theoreticalbackground Parental monitoring Adolescent delinquency Glueck & Glueck, 1950; Patterson & Reid,1982; Loeber & Stoethamer-Loeber, 1986

  5. Kerr & Stattin, 2000; Stattin & Kerr, 2000

  6. Reinterpretation of Monitoring Parental monitoring Adolescent delinquency Adolescent disclosure Parental monitoring Adolescent delinquency Glueck & Glueck, 1950; Patterson & Reid,1982; Loeber & Stoethamer-Loeber, 1986 Reinterpretation: Kerr & Stattin, 2000; Stattin & Kerr, 2000

  7. Dissertation Replication in Dutch sample Open questions: Directionality of effects Developmental changes Relationship context One of the first longitudinal studies on this issue

  8. Bidirectionality

  9. QUESTION: Can disruptions in or absence of parent-child communication about adolescent daily activities explain increases in minor delinquency, or vice versa?

  10. 15 years 14 years Adolescent Disclosure Adolescent Disclosure -.14 -.32 Delinquency Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent -.11 Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). Reciprocal effects (...). Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20, 88-113.

  11. Parental Monitoring Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Disclosure

  12. Parental Monitoring Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Disclosure

  13. Orientation at Deviant Peers Orientation at Deviant Peers Orientation at Deviant Peers Prohibition of Friendships & Parental Control by Mothers and Fathers Parent-child variable Parent-child variable Parent-child variable Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Delinquency Keijsers, L., et al. (2012). Forbidden Friends as Forbidden Fruit (...). Child Development, 83, 651-666.

  14. 15 years 14 years 13 years Orientation at Deviant Peers Orientation at Deviant Peers Orientation at Deviant Peers Prohibition of Friendships Prohibition of Friendships Prohibition of Friendships .19* | .15 + .67***| .62*** Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Delinquency Significant indirect effectsfor moms β Mother | β Fathers Keijsers, L., et al. (2012). Forbidden Friends as Forbidden Fruit (...). Child Development, 83, 651-666.

  15. Parental Monitoring Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Disclosure

  16. Parental Monitoring Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Disclosure

  17. Adolescent Disclosure Adolescent Disclosure -.04-.01 -.21 -.08-.00 Delinquency Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent -.29 .04-.18 .32 .08-.18 Adolescent Secrecy Adolescent Secrecy Frijns, T. , Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). What parents don’t know (...). Journal of Adolescence, 33, 261-270.

  18. Parental Monitoring Adolescent Delinquency Adolescent Disclosure Adolescent Secrecy

  19. QUESTION: • Can the increase in disruptions or absence of parent-child communication about adolescent daily activities explain increases in minor delinquency?

  20. Developmental Changes adolescent child

  21. Decrease in Disclosure Solicitation Stable Decrease in Control Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). Developmental links (...). Developmental Psychology, 45, 1314-1327.

  22. Increase in Secrecy, Strongest for Boys   Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). Gender differences in keeping secrets(...). Developmental Psychology, 46, 293-298.

  23. Keijsers, L., Loeber, R. et al. (2011). Bidirectional links (...). Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 878-889.

  24. Late start Minor delinquency Transient Common Early start Serious Persistent Uncommon Moffitt, 1993

  25. Adolescent Limited = Non- Delinquents Adolescent Limited = Serious Persisters Keijsers, L., Loeber, R. et al. (in press). Parent-child relationships in different offending trajectories (...). JCPP

  26. QUESTION: What should parents do to increase parent-child communication about adolescent daily activities?

  27. 15years 14 years Adolescent Disclosure Adolescent Disclosure .12 .11 Mother Solicitation Mother Solicitation .11 Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). Reciprocal effects (...). Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20, 88-113.

  28. Hawk et al., 2008; Stattin & Kerr, 2000

  29. Secrecy Secrecy Secrecy 13 years 14 years 15 years Privacy Invasion Privacy Invasion Privacy Invasion .13 .11 .15 .14 .22 -.13 -.14 -.15 Mother Knowledge Mother Knowledge Mother Knowledge Keijsers, L.*, & Hawk, S.* et al. (in press). I still haven’t found (...). Developmental Psychology

  30. Secrecy Secrecy Secrecy Secrecy  13 years 14 years 15 years 16 years -.06 -.06 -.05 Relationship Quality Relationship Quality Relationship Quality Relationship Quality Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). Gender differences in keeping secrets(...). Developmental Psychology, 46, 293-298.

  31. 13 years 14 years 15 years 16 years Secrecy Secrecy Secrecy Secrecy -.10 -.10 -.09 -.44 -.06 -.06 -.05 -.20 -.19 -.22 Relationship Quality Relationship Quality Relationship Quality Relationship Quality Keijsers, L., et al. (2010). Gender differences in keeping secrets(...). Developmental Psychology, 46, 293-298.

  32. Parental Monitoring Adolescent Delinquency Relationship Adolescent Disclosure Adolescent Secrecy Age

  33. Practical Implications

  34. Inspiration, support, friendship, today’sattendence… Thanks…. L.Keijsers@uu.nl Dissertation, presentation, and abstract @ www.LoesKeijsers.nl

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