no longer predicted less antisocial behavior, and behavior no longer reduced youths’ monitoring efforts by mothers two years later (Table 3). Taken together, these results indicate that the reciprocal associations between monitoring and preadolescent antisocial behavior are not robust in this cohort; they were small, inconsistent across informants, and were better accounted for by family background and characteristics. parents’ Does antisocial behavior influence parental knowledge? youths’ We next examined the results for parental knowledge, expecting that higher levels of antisocial behavior would predict lower parental knowledge, but that greater youth’s knowledge would have little effect on later antisocial behavior. We found that the more antisocial behavior youths displayed at age 10, the less knowledge their mothers had at age 12 (Figure 3, panel a). Knowledge reported by mothers at age 10 did not statistically reduce antisocial behavior two years later. youths’ We tested the robustness of these results as previously. First, the results remained similar across different informants of parental knowledge, with higher levels of youths’ antisocial behavior at age 10 predicting less parental knowledge as reported by both youth and fathers at age 12 (Figure 3, panels b and c). Second, taking family characteristics into account did not change the pattern of results (Table 3). In addition, we tested whether the results remained when an informant outside the family reported on antisocial youths’ behavior. When using only reports of behavior, the results did not change teachers’ youths’ (Figure 4). Taken together, our findings show that antisocial behavior predicted youths’ lower levels of knowledge. This effect was consistent across different informants of parents’ parental knowledge and antisocial behavior, and also when someone other than youths’
no longer predicted less antisocial behavior, and youths’ behavior no longer reduced monitoring efforts by mothers two years later (Table 3). Taken together, these results indicate that the reciprocal associations between monitoring and preadolescent antisocial behavior are not robust in this cohort; they were small, inconsistent across informants, and were better accounted for by family background and parents’ characteristics. Does youths’ antisocial behavior influence parental knowledge? We next examined the results for parental knowledge, expecting that higher levels of youth’s antisocial behavior would predict lower parental knowledge, but that greater knowledge would have little effect on later antisocial behavior. We found that the more antisocial behavior youths displayed at age 10, the less knowledge their mothers had at age 12 (Figure 3, panel a). Knowledge reported by mothers at age 10 did not statistically reduce youths’ antisocial behavior two years later. We tested the robustness of these results as previously. First, the results remained similar across different informants of parental knowledge, with higher levels of youths’ antisocial behavior at age 10 predicting less parental knowledge as reported by both youth and fathers at age 12 (Figure 3, panels b and c). Second, taking family characteristics into account did not change the pattern of results (Table 3). In addition, we tested whether the results remained when an informant outside the family reported on youths’ antisocial behavior. When using only teachers’ reports of youths’ behavior, the results did not change (Figure 4). Taken together, our findings show that youths’ antisocial behavior predicted lower levels of parents’ knowledge. This effect was consistent across different informants of parental knowledge and youths’ antisocial behavior, and also when someone other than
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