Waylen, Andrea and McKenna, Frank P.. (2009) The role of parental attitudes and monitoring in the risk exposure of young children. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol.39 (No.4). pp. 791-803. ISSN 00219029

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Abstract

The parental monitoring literature debates the role of parental activity, as opposed to parental knowledge in childhood risk taking. We examined parents’ attitudes and behaviors regarding roadside supervision of children aged 4 to 6 years using self-report and observational measures. Although parents perceived sons as less careful than daughters, they reported no sex differences in the age children would be allowed out unsupervised. There were no self-report differences in supervision according to socioeconomic status. However, roadside observations showed that boys and children from a lower socioeconomic area received less supervision than girls or those from a higher socioeconomic area. Such findings contribute to our understanding of the sex and socioeconomic differences in accident involvement and the role of parental monitoring.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Parental influences, Risk-taking (Psychology) in children, Parent and child, Parenting
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN:	00219029
Date:	April 2009
Volume:	Vol.39
Number:	No.4
Page Range:	pp. 791-803
Identification Number:	10.1111/j.1559-1816.2009.00460.x
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/37506

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