Effects of Adolescents ' Attachment to Their Parents on the Longitudinal Changes in Parental Monitoring

The purpose of this study was to examine: (1) whether the level of parental monitoring changes during adolescence; (2) if it changes, what is the pattern of the change; and (3) whether the effects of adolescents ' attachment to their parents on parental monitoring are dependent on time. Six waves of data from the Korea Youth Panel Study (KYPS) were used to address the research questions. The participants of the KYPS were 3,449 (1,725 boys and 1,724 girls) adolescents who participated in the study once a year for 6 years (from the 2nd grade in middle school until their high school graduation). Latent growth modeling (LGM) was used to analyze the data. The findings are as follows: the level of parental monitoring significantly in-creased over the six waves of the study, and the adolescents ' attachment to their parents was a time-dependent predictor of parental monitoring. The results indicate that the quality of adolescents ’ attachment to their parents is an important factor that makes a difference in the level of parental monitoring by, possibly, affecting the level of adolescents ’ disclosure to their parents. ▲주제어(Key Words) : 부모애착(attachment to parents), 부모감독(parental monitoring), 잠재성장모형(latent growth model), 시간의존