title: Maternal demandingness and responsiveness as predictors of adolescent abstinence.
abstract: This retrospective study examined two distinct parenting dimensions, demandingness and responsiveness, as independent predictors of adolescent sexual risk behavior. The data used to test study hypotheses were from Waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). In this sample of 2,030 adolescents and their mothers, maternal demandingness [odds ratio (OR)=0.77] and maternal responsiveness (OR=0.89) independently predicted adolescent abstinence from sex. Findings substantiate the use of a dimensional approach to measuring parenting in examining adolescent sexual behavior.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
authors.forename: Mary F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012746:Sexual Abstinence / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014481:United States