Citation

West JH, Blumberg EJ, Kelley NJ, Hill LL, Sipan CL, Schmitz K, Kolody B, Madlensky L, Hovell MF. J. Ethn. Subst. Abuse 2011; 10(1): 71-89.

Affiliation

Department of Health Science, BrighamYoung University, UT 84602, USA. josh.west@byu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15332640.2011.547800

PMID

21409705

PMCID

PMC3880251

Abstract

Parent and adolescent self-reports are the most common sources for measuring parenting practices. This study's purpose was to compare how parent and adolescent reports of parenting behaviors differentially predict adolescent gateway drug use. The sample consisted of 252 Latino adolescent-parent dyads. After controlling for potential confounding influences, only adolescents' reports about their parents' parenting behaviors were significant and explained 38% of the variance in gateway drug use. Practitioners may recommend to parents seeking parenting advice that they solicit feedback from their adolescent to ensure parenting efforts are received in the manner they were intended.

Language: en