Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China

PURPOSE: Trust is an important aspect of interpersonal relationships, but little is known about adolescents’ interpersonal trust. The aim of the present study was to examine the associations among parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, and adolescents’ trust in their parents in China....

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Autores principales: Ying, Liuhua, Ma, Fengling, Huang, Huahua, Guo, Xiaolin, Chen, Chuansheng, Xu, Fen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26271080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134730
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author Ying, Liuhua
Ma, Fengling
Huang, Huahua
Guo, Xiaolin
Chen, Chuansheng
Xu, Fen
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Ma, Fengling
Huang, Huahua
Guo, Xiaolin
Chen, Chuansheng
Xu, Fen
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description PURPOSE: Trust is an important aspect of interpersonal relationships, but little is known about adolescents’ interpersonal trust. The aim of the present study was to examine the associations among parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, and adolescents’ trust in their parents in China. METHODS: Data in this study were collected as part of the cross-sectional study of children in China. 3349 adolescents (female 48.6%, age range of 12–15 years) were randomly selected from 35 secondary schools in April, 2009 and administered to the Adolescent Interpersonal Trust Scale, the Parental Monitoring Scale, and the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale. RESULTS: Adolescents’ trust in their parents was positively related to parental monitoring and parent-adolescent communication. Furthermore, parent-adolescent communication mediated the association between parental monitoring and adolescents’ trust in their parents. The mediation model fit data of both genders and three age groups equally well. CONCLUSIONS: Parental monitoring and parent-adolescent communication play an importance role in fostering adolescents’ trust in their parents.
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spelling pubmed-45362212015-08-20 Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China Ying, Liuhua Ma, Fengling Huang, Huahua Guo, Xiaolin Chen, Chuansheng Xu, Fen PLoS One Research Article PURPOSE: Trust is an important aspect of interpersonal relationships, but little is known about adolescents’ interpersonal trust. The aim of the present study was to examine the associations among parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, and adolescents’ trust in their parents in China. METHODS: Data in this study were collected as part of the cross-sectional study of children in China. 3349 adolescents (female 48.6%, age range of 12–15 years) were randomly selected from 35 secondary schools in April, 2009 and administered to the Adolescent Interpersonal Trust Scale, the Parental Monitoring Scale, and the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale. RESULTS: Adolescents’ trust in their parents was positively related to parental monitoring and parent-adolescent communication. Furthermore, parent-adolescent communication mediated the association between parental monitoring and adolescents’ trust in their parents. The mediation model fit data of both genders and three age groups equally well. CONCLUSIONS: Parental monitoring and parent-adolescent communication play an importance role in fostering adolescents’ trust in their parents. Public Library of Science 2015-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4536221/ /pubmed/26271080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134730 Text en © 2015 Ying et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Ying, Liuhua
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Guo, Xiaolin
Chen, Chuansheng
Xu, Fen
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title Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China
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title_fullStr Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China
title_full_unstemmed Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China
title_short Parental Monitoring, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescents’ Trust in Their Parents in China
title_sort parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, and adolescents’ trust in their parents in china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26271080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134730
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