both parents may be viewed as inappropriate and interfering with their autonomy striving goals and/or signal a lack of trust in their adolescents’ judgment. Since monitoring is conceptualized as a negotiated disclosure process between the parent and adolescent (Stattin & Kerr, 2000), it may be that too much monitoring effort may lead to less adolescent self disclosure, and, in turn, less effective monitoring on the part of the parents. Clearly both the quality of the adolescent –parent relationship as well as family type merit more attention to better understand the conditions under which monitoring is more or less effective.
