What Can Parents Do?

Margaret Kerr (Orebro, Sweden) is Professor of Psychology at Orebro University, Sweden. Hakan Stattin (Orebro, Sweden) is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala and Orebro Universities, Sweden.Rutger Engels (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) is Professor at the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, the Netherlands. They are the co-editors of Friends, Lovers and Groups (Wiley, 2007).

• About the Editors viiList of Contributors ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction: What’s Changed in Research on Parenting and Adolescent Problem Behavior and What Needs to Change? 1Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Rutger C. M. E. EngelsPART 1: ADOLESCENTS AS ACTIVE AGENTS 91 Adolescents’ Agency in Information Management 11Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall2 Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in Parent–Adolescent Relationships 43Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Kaska E. Kubacka3 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Your Mom and Dad): Disclosure and Nondisclosure in Adolescent–parent Relationships 65Judith G. Smetana and Aaron MetzgerPART 2: THE ROLES OF ADOLESCENT AGENCY AND PARENTING EFFORTS IN RELATIONSHIPS AND ADJUSTMENT 894 Parents React to Adolescent Problem Behaviors by Worrying More and Monitoring Less 91Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin and Vilmante Pakalniskiene5 Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use 113Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Jeff Kiesner6 Reciprocal Development of Parent–adolescent Support and Adolescent Problem Behaviors 135Susan J. T. Branje, William W. Hale III and Wim H. J. Meeus7 Linkages between Parenting and Peer Relationships: A Model for Parental Management of Adolescents’ Peer Relationships 163Nina S. Mounts8 From Coercion to Positive Parenting: Putting Divorced Mothers in Charge of Change 191Marion S. Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson and David S. DeGarmoPART 3: LESSONS FROM PARENTING RESEARCH ON YOUNGER CHILDREN 2119 Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment 213Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger and Carrie E. Price10 What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends 239Joan E. Grusec11 Positive Parenting and Positive Characteristics and Values in Children 259Marc H. BornsteinIndex 285