Youth Perceptions of Parental Involvement and Monitoring, Discrepancies With Parental Perceptions, and Their Associations With First Cigarette Use in Black and White Girls.

CONCLUSIONS: Girls whose parents have limited awareness of their whereabouts and friends (i.e., low monitoring) are at an elevated risk for trying cigarettes, but parent-daughter differences in perceived awareness do not affect risk. By contrast, girls who perceive a lower degree of parental involvement than their parents do are at increased risk. Monitoring is one component of parenting that may reduce smoking risk; shared perspectives on the parent's level of involvement are similarly important. PMID: 32359047 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32359047?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - May 4, 2020 Category: Addiction Tags: J Stud Alcohol Drugs Source Type: research