title: Mother's and father's monitoring is more important than parental social support regarding sexual risk behaviour among 15-year-old adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  There is strong evidence that parental processes such as monitoring and social support play an important role with regard to sexual risk behaviour among adolescents. We wished to explore the influence of both parents' monitoring and support on sexual risk behaviour among adolescent boys and girls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaires concerning sexual risk behaviour, parental support and parental monitoring were administered to 15-year-old students (n = 1343; 628 boys). Crude and adjusted logistic regression models were used to explore the effect of parents' monitoring and support on sexual risk behaviour among adolescent boys and girls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Parental monitoring was more strongly associated with sexual risk behaviour than parental social support. In particular, less monitoring by the father was significantly linked to early first sexual intercourse among girls and to not using a condom during last intercourse among boys. Less monitoring by the mother was associated only with not using a condom at last intercourse among boys.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Parental monitoring, even more than parental support, may delay the onset of sexual activity and increase the frequency of condom use among adolescents. The effects of mothers' and fathers' parenting processes on sexual risk behaviour of adolescents differ. Paternal monitoring affects condom use among boys, and initiation of sexual activity in girls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia.
authors.forename: Ondrej
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kalina
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Madarasova Geckova
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Pavol
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jarcuska
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Orosova
authors.forename: Jitse P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: van Dijk
authors.forename: Sijmen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Reijneveld
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012944:Social Support; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires