Publications by authors named "Isabella S Davis"
Parental Monitoring, Parental Knowledge, and the Occurrence of Potentially Traumatic Events in Adolescence.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
November 2024
Parental monitoring and knowledge of their teens' activities might enable parents to keep teens safe, reducing the risk of potentially traumatic events. This paper investigated that possibility using a large, nationwide sample of 11,880 early adolescent teens followed longitudinally from ages 10-11 to 13-14 years old. At annual assessments, teens completed measures of parental monitoring/knowledge and of potentially traumatic events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDigital Location Tracking of Children and Adolescents: A Theoretical Framework and Review.
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev
December 2024
Many parents in the U.S. have begun using GPS-based digital location tracking (DLT) technologies (smartphones, tags, wearables) to track the whereabouts of children and adolescents.
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- The paper critiques the existing definitions and measurements of parental monitoring, highlighting their vague and inconsistent nature, which has led to a fragmented understanding of the concept in research.
- It introduces a clearer definition of parental monitoring as the behaviors caregivers use to gather information about their child's activities, proposing a taxonomy of five distinct types of monitoring behaviors.
- The authors aim to differentiate parental monitoring from similar parenting concepts and emphasize its role in the dynamic relationship between caregivers and youth, promoting more rigorous research in the field.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to test two non-exclusive mechanisms by which parental monitoring might reduce teen substance use. The first mechanism (M1) is that monitoring increases punishment for substance use since parents who monitor more are more likely to find out when substance use occurs. The second mechanism (M2) is that monitoring directly prevents/averts teens from using substances in the first place for fear that parents would find out.
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