Volume 3, Number 3, July–September 2003

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

Parent and Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Risk Involvement
Lesley Cottrell, Xiaoming Li, Carole Harris, Dawn D'Alessandri, Melissa Atkins, Bill Richardson, and Bonita Stanton

Although adolescents and parents both believe that parents monitor their adolescents effectively, patterns of parent and adolescent perceptions of monitoring appear to differ and only adolescent perceptions of parental monitoring are predictive of adolescent risk involvement.

Parenting and Children's Behavior at 36 Months: Equivalence Between African American and European American Mother – Child Dyads
Leanne Whiteside-Mansell, Robert H. Bradley, Margaret Tresch Owen, Suzanne M. Randolph, and Ana Mari Cauce

Responsive, harsh, and intrusive parenting are generally comparable between African American and European American families, and their associations with child problem behaviors are similar.

Parenting and Temperament as Interacting Agents in Early Language Development
Jan Karrass and Julia M. Braungart-Rieker

Maternal responsiveness moderates the relation between infant temperament and early language abilities, such that responsive parenting only benefits those infants who display less emotion.

BOOK REVIEW

Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives edited by Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda and Natasha Cabrera
Ross A. Thompson