title: Comparing Multi-Informant Assessment Measures of Parental Monitoring and Their Links with Adolescent Delinquent Behavior.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Parents' poor monitoring of adolescents' whereabouts and activities is commonly linked to adolescents' increased engagement in delinquent behaviors. Yet, different domains of parental monitoring (parental monitoring behaviors vs. parental knowledge) and reports from multiple informants (parent vs. adolescent) may vary in their links to delinquent behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-four parental caregivers and 74 adolescents completed survey measures of parental monitoring and knowledge, and adolescents completed self-report surveys of delinquent behavior.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We observed low-to-moderate magnitudes of correspondence between parent- and adolescent-reports of parental monitoring behaviors and parental knowledge. Adolescent self-reported delinquent behavior related to parent and adolescent reports of parental monitoring behaviors and parental knowledge, with adolescents who self-reported engagement in delinquent behaviors evidencing lower levels of parental knowledge and higher levels of poor monitoring compared to adolescents who did not self-report engagement in delinquent behaviors. Adolescent self-reported engagement in delinquent behaviors evidenced stronger links to parental monitoring when based on adolescent reports of monitoring (relative to parent reports), whereas stronger links held between adolescent self-reported delinquent behavior and parental knowledge when based on parent reports of knowledge (relative to adolescent reports).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Links between monitoring and adolescents' delinquent behavior vary by the kind of monitoring measure completed as well as the informant completing the measure. These findings inform measurement selection in research and clinical assessments of parental monitoring and adolescent delinquent behavior.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park.
authors.forename: Tara M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Augenstein
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park.
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park.
authors.forename: Katherine B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Ehrlich
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daruwala
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park.
authors.forename: Shelby M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park.
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Chrabaszcz
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, Biology/Psychology Building College Park, MD 20742.
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Los Reyes