Parental monitoring among Adolescents of Military Families

Poorly parental Monitored adolescents are more likely to participate in pathological behaviors. The current study aims to investigate parental monitoring among military families’ adolescents. In this cross-sectional study, 457 high school female and male students were selected through cluster sampling method and were assessed by Parental Monitoring Scale and Cronbach alpha coefficient for the scale was 0.73. Data was analyzed with SPSS-19 and using descriptive statistics and independent sample T-test. According to study results, 75.2 percent of adolescents were going through high parental monitoring. Furthermore 63.2% of the male adolescents and 84.2% of female adolescents reported high parental monitoring. Moreover, the results showed that there was a significant difference between girls and boys in parental monitoring.Discussion and Parental monitoring involves attending to and keeping track of the adolescent. So, it is critical to take account of parental monitoring in parenting to bring up healthy adolescents. Additional, monitoring male adolescents is highly recommended.