Associations between parents` knowledge of their adolescent child`s daily activities, 3 sources of parental knowledge, children`s feelings of being controlled, and the child-reported parent-child relationship were explored among 161 seventh grade, 158...
Associations between parents` knowledge of their adolescent child`s daily activities, 3 sources of parental knowledge, children`s feelings of being controlled, and the child-reported parent-child relationship were explored among 161 seventh grade, 158 eighth, 145 tenth, and 142 eleventh grade boys. Children`s spontaneous disclosure explained more parental knowledge of their daily activities than parental solicitation or parental control. For 10th grade children, the association between parental control and children`s feelings of being controlled was moderated by the mother-child relationship. Tenth and eleventh grade children`s disclosure were more strongly associated with parent-child relationship than with parental control and children`s feelings of being controlled.