The Role of Perceived Parental Knowledge on Emerging Adults’ Risk BehaviorsJournal of Youth and Adolescence, Online First February 02, 2008
The purpose of this study was to gain a clearer understanding of the relation between parents’ knowledge of their emerging-adult children and emerging adults’ risk behaviors.
Results revealed that knowledge of the emerging-adult child’s activities varied as a function of parent- and child-reports, and that child outcomes associated with parental knowledge were generally positive, including less drinking, drug use, and risky sexual behavior (although this varied as a function of reporter).
The links between maternal knowledge and lower drug and alcohol use were particularly strong in the presence of maternal closeness.
Implications for understanding the parent–child relationship during the transition to adulthood were discussed.
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