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Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Tested the tracking/surveillance explanation of why parental knowledge is linked to adolescent adjustment. Found that across age and informant, high parental knowledge was linked to good adjustment in Swedish 14-year-olds, but children's spontaneous information disclosure explained more of these relations than parents' knowledge. Suggested that…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents