| Literature DB >> 21409705 |
Joshua H West1, Elaine J Blumberg, Norma J Kelley, Linda Hill, Carol L Sipan, Katherine Schmitz, Bohdan Kolody, Lisa Madlensky, Melbourne F Hovell.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21409705 PMCID: PMC3880251 DOI: 10.1080/15332640.2011.547800
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Ethn Subst Abuse ISSN: 1533-2640 Impact factor: 1.507