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- Title
The Role of Parental Monitoring in Mediating the Link Between Adolescent ADHD Symptoms and Risk-Taking Behavior.
- Authors
Pollak, Yehuda; Poni, Bella; Gershy, Naama; Aran, Adi
- Abstract
Objective: ADHD in adolescents and low level of parental monitoring have been associated with increased risk-taking behavior. The present study examined whether parental knowledge of the child's whereabouts mediates the correlations between adolescent ADHD symptoms and risk-taking behavior. Method: Ninety-two adolescents and their parents completed questionnaires assessing perceptions of parents' monitoring, engagement in risk-taking behaviors, and ADHD symptoms. Results: Greater engagement in risk-taking behavior correlated with higher levels of ADHD symptoms and decreased parental monitoring. Mediation analysis revealed both direct effect of ADHD symptoms on risk-taking behavior and an indirect effect mediated by level of parental knowledge. Conclusion: These findings suggest that parental knowledge is negatively affected by the presence of ADHD symptoms, and may in turn lead to risk-taking behavior. The findings emphasize the need to target parenting and in particular parental knowledge of the child's whereabouts to reduce risk-taking behaviors among youth with ADHD.
- Subjects
ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; BEHAVIOR disorders in adolescence; RISK-taking behavior in adolescence; PARENT-teenager relationships; ADOLESCENT psychology; PARENT attitudes; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTING; PARENTS; RESEARCH; RISK-taking behavior; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Journal of Attention Disorders, 2020, Vol 24, Issue 8, p1141
- ISSN
1087-0547
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/1087054717725875