Abstract: This study aims to explore the state of adolescent parental monitoring (including monitoring status and monitoring method) in China.1090 middle school students (grade 7 to grade 11) from two ordinary middle schools in Beijing completed modified Stattin's Parental Monitoring Scale.The results indicate that: (1) Mothers do more monitoring work in family: objective mother monitoring is higher than father,also are three monitoring methods; (2) Girls are monitored more than boys: objective mother monitoring is higher on girls than boys,and mothers also communicate more with girls; both fathers and mothers use more control method on girls; (3) There is not so much grade difference of parental monitoring,only that parents communicate more with Grade 7 students; (4) Parental communication and control methods are both correlated positively with objective mother monitoring,but negatively with subjective mother monitoring,and solicitation method is just on the contrary; communication method is the best positive predictor of objective mother monitoring,and solicitation method is the best positive predictor of subjective mother monitoring.

Key words: adolescent, parental monitoring, monitoring status, monitoring method