But I Trust My Teen: Parents' Attitudes and Response to a Parental Monitoring Intervention

Table 3

Hierarchical linear growth model for parent-reported open communication.

	Intervention group			Control group
Variable	Coefficient	SE	𝑃 value	Coefficient	SE	𝑃 value
Intercept	2.97			1.97
Income	−.03	.012	.033	−.01	.018	.607
Teen age	.02	.012	.050	−.02	.019	.208
Parent gender (female)	.16	.056	.005	−.07	.088	.425
UMP	.53	.052	<.001	.53	.072	<.001
EXP	−.23	.041	<.001	−.32	.065	<.001
Linear slope (wave)	−.02	.008	.03	.003	.012	.809
UMP	−.05	.027	.06	.01	.038	.72
ATP	.04	.015	.018	.05	.022	.022

UMP: parent attitudes about the usefulness of the monitoring process; EXP: parent attitudes about the impact of monitoring on adolescent risk behavior and experimentation; ATP: parent attitudes about monitoring and the importance of adolescent trust and privacy.