A six item scale adapted from Stattin and Kerr (2000) was used which gauges the adolescent’s perception of the qualitative aspects of their parents’ monitoring, as well as parental self-reports of their monitoring on 5-point Likert scales. The adolescent reported on both parents, and parents reported on themselves. Adolescent and father reports of father monitoring were correlated (r = .30) as were adolescent and mother reports of mother monitoring (r = .35), and scores were averaged across reporters to create a summary scale of each parent’s monitoring (α = .73 for father monitoring, .78 for mother monitoring).
