ROLE OF PARENTING IN ADOLESCENT DEVIANT-BEHAVIOR - REPLICATION ACROSSAND WITHIN 2 ETHNIC-GROUPS

The role of 2 parenting variables, monitoring and communication, in ad olescent deviant behavior was examined within 4 samples: Black America ns living in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Bronx, New York, and Hispani cs living in the Bronx, New York, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The parti cipants comprised 907 14- to 16-year-old adolescents and their mothers recruited through high schools in 3 communities. The results indicate d that higher levels of parental monitoring, but not parent-adolescent communication, predicted lower levels of adolescent deviance in each of the samples. The replication of these findings in samples that vary by ethnicity and location provides strong support for the generalizab ility of the association between parental monitoring and low levels of adolescent deviant behavior.