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In this chapter we focus on associations between intrusive parenting, the parent–adolescent relationship, and adolescents’ information management strategies. Theoretically, parenting that threatens adolescents’ autonomy leads to suboptimal adolescent adjustment. We discuss when overprotective parenting, psychological control, behavioral control, and helicopter parenting may be intrusive and how they are associated with the parent–adolescent relationship and adolescent information management. We also consider parental intrusiveness and adolescents’ information management in two specific contexts, namely in relation to adolescents’ sexuality and media use. We suggest that an intrusive parenting environment is not the optimal way to promote healthy adolescent information management.
Children and adolescents spend a great deal of time with a variety of media, raising the important question of whether media might influence the socialization of children. Although copious research has found consistent links between violent media content and children’s aggression, research has also found that prosocial media influences the development of prosocial behavior for both children and adolescents. Thus, in this chapter we review theoretical justifications for why and how prosocial media content impacts young people, and then synthesize existing research on the effects of different mediums of prosocial media on child outcomes. This review includes traditional media (e.g., TV, movies, video games, music, books) and new media (e.g., cell phones, tablets, social media). We then discuss the policy implications of links between prosocial media and prosocial behavior, and provide important avenues for future research.
The parent-child relationship continues to be essential to optimal adolescent development despite a restructuring of the relationship in response to developmental needs. In this chapter we provide an overview of parenting research during adolescence, including global aspects of parenting (e.g., parenting styles, warmth, control) and nuances of parenting that are particularly salient during the teen years (e.g., parental monitoring of media and peers, parental socialization of race, parent-child sex communication). We then highlight the ways in which parenting adolescents varies as a function of demographic factors such as gender and race. Finally, we explore policy applications of the research on parenting adolescents and suggest a number of avenues for future research. The most consistent finding in our review of research, cutting across studies of parental control, monitoring, media monitoring, peer management, parent-child sex communication, and policy research – was the importance of the parent-adolescent relationship in enhancing the effects of positive parenting and buffering the effects of negative parenting.