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Chapter One
Adolescents' Agency in
Information Management
Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Sheila K. Marshall
University of British Columbia, Canada
INTRODUCTION
One of the primary tasks associated with childhood and adolescence is to shift
from being regulated by others to self-regulation and self-control. Because
adolescents in Western cultures tend to spend increasingly more time away
from their parents (Larson et al., 1996), much attention has been given to how
parents continue to regulate their adolescents when the adolescents are not
supervised by adults. The majority of research investigating this topic has
focused on parents' attempts to monitor their adolescents' whereabouts and
activities.
This body of research has been seriously flawed, however, assuming that
parents' monitoring provides them with information about adolescents' whereabouts
and activities. The use of invalid measures (e.g., measures of parental
knowledge, rather than parent ... read full excerpt from What Can Parents Do?: New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem Behavior ebook
