title: Latino parenting practices: a comparison of parent and child reports of parenting practices and the association with gateway drug use.
abstract: Parent and adolescent self-reports are the most common sources for measuring parenting practices. This study's purpose was to compare how parent and adolescent reports of parenting behaviors differentially predict adolescent gateway drug use. The sample consisted of 252 Latino adolescent-parent dyads. After controlling for potential confounding influences, only adolescents' reports about their parents' parenting behaviors were significant and explained 38% of the variance in gateway drug use. Practitioners may recommend to parents seeking parenting advice that they solicit feedback from their adolescent to ensure parenting efforts are received in the manner they were intended.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, BrighamYoung University, UT 84602, USA. josh.west@byu.edu
authors.forename: Joshua H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: Elaine J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Blumberg
authors.forename: Norma J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Kelley
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Carol L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Sipan
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schmitz
authors.forename: Bohdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kolody
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Madlensky
authors.forename: Melbourne F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Hovell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010379:Peer Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology