Abstract The concept and operationalisation of parental monitoring in adolescent behavioural research is idiosyncratic, and often conflates multiple concepts. This hinders study and understanding of its role in the distinct processes of adolescent development and behaviour. This paper introduces a model of Goal-Directed Parental Action, applied to adolescent crime, in order to situate and thus define the concept of parental monitoring. This model draws on Situational Action Theory to both prioritise motivation and specify a parental action process. This process distinguishes parental goals from the means by which to achieve them and from the knowledge gathering required to evaluate progress towards such goals. Within this framework, parental monitoring is defined as the employment of active information-gathering behaviours by parents to help them to gain knowledge about and evaluate their child's progress towards a range of parentally selected developmental and behavioural goals. In addition to facilitating this definition of parental monitoring, the model of Goal-Directed Parental Action has future potential to clarify other parenting concepts and processes.

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在目标导向的父母行为模型中重新定义父母监督

摘要 青少年行为研究中父母监控的概念和操作化是特殊的，并且经常将多个概念混为一谈。这阻碍了对其在青少年发展和行为的不同过程中的作用的研究和理解。本文介绍了一种适用于青少年犯罪的目标导向的父母行动模型，以定位并定义父母监督的概念。该模型利用情境行动理论来优先考虑动机并指定父母的行动过程。这个过程将父母的目标与实现这些目标的手段以及评估实现这些目标的进展所需的知识收集区分开来。在这个框架内，父母监督被定义为父母采用积极的信息收集行为来帮助他们了解和评估他们的孩子在实现一系列父母选择的发展和行为目标方面的进展。除了促进父母监督的这一定义之外，目标导向的父母行动模型在未来有可能澄清其他养育概念和过程。