Margaret Kerr & Håkan Stattin 
What Can Parents Do? 
New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem Behavior

In recent years research on parenting has changed stance from one where parents shape child outcomes to an interactive perspective. However this shift is only now transferring to adolescents, with research exploring how the roles that adolescents and parents play in their interactions can lead to problem behaviour. Part of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, this book presents the new perspective.

Inhoudsopgave

About the Editors vii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: What’s Changed in Research on Parenting and
Adolescent Problem Behavior and What Needs to Change? 1

Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Rutger C. M. E.
Engels

PART 1: ADOLESCENTS AS ACTIVE AGENTS 9

1 Adolescents’ Agency in Information Management 11

Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall

2 Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in
Parent-Adolescent Relationships 43

Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Kaska E.
Kubacka

3 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Your Mom and Dad):
Disclosure and Nondisclosure in Adolescent-parent
Relationships 65

Judith G. Smetana and Aaron Metzger

PART 2: THE ROLES OF ADOLESCENT AGENCY AND PARENTING EFFORTS
IN RELATIONSHIPS AND ADJUSTMENT 89

4 Parents React to Adolescent Problem Behaviors by Worrying More
and Monitoring Less 91

Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Vilmante
Pakalniskiene

5 Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in
Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use 113

Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Jeff
Kiesner

6 Reciprocal Development of Parent-adolescent Support and
Adolescent Problem Behaviors 135

Susan J. T. Branje, William W. Hale III and Wim H. J.
Meeus

7 Linkages between Parenting and Peer Relationships: A Model for
Parental Management of Adolescents’ Peer Relationships
163

Nina S. Mounts

8 From Coercion to Positive Parenting: Putting Divorced Mothers
in Charge of Change 191

Marion S. Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson and
David S. De Garmo

PART 3: LESSONS FROM PARENTING RESEARCH ON YOUNGER CHILDREN
211

9 Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting
Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment
213

Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger and Carrie E.
Price

10 What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends
239

Joan E. Grusec

11 Positive Parenting and Positive Characteristics and Values in
Children 259

Marc H. Bornstein

Index 285

Over de auteur

Margaret Kerr (Orebro, Sweden) is Professor of Psychology at
Orebro University, Sweden.

Hakan Stattin (Orebro, Sweden) is Professor of Psychology
at Uppsala and Orebro Universities, Sweden.

Rutger Engels (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) is Professor at
the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, the
Netherlands. They are the co-editors of Friends, Lovers and
Groups (Wiley, 2007).