Adolescents' Agency in Information Management

What Can Parents Do?: New Insights into the Role of Parents in Adolescent Problem Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-41

  Tilton Weaver, Lauree C ^a   Marshall, Sheila K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b School of Social Work and Family Studies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents' friends and activities; Delinquent and defiant adolescents; Information management; Information management issues; Monitoring knowledge or monitoring relevant knowledge; Parenting and Behavioral Control; Parents' monitoring efforts; Privacy boundary management; Self regulation and self control; Social and cognitive processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889338647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774113.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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