Father monitoring and life satisfaction in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes

Metabolic control for adolescents with type 1 diabetes could be influenced by the quality of family relationships (Anderson et al., 2010). In fact, the management of chronic treatment in adolescence is strongly influenced by the transition of care responsibility from parents to self. Research has evidenced the role of mothers in predicting better outcomes for adolescent life satisfaction but in the last decade father has acquired more importance for a shared control metabolic (Hilliard et al., 2014). In the present study, we collected data for understanding the role of father, both for self and child perspective. Results on 30 dyads have shown that adolescent life satisfaction is influenced negatively by father disengagement and more interestingly by perceived father disclosure and control. No direct relationship between father evaluation for parental monitoring and child life satisfaction. According to Maes (2014), it is important tracking the trajectory of the transition from father to self management to understand self determined motivation with the goal of developing better outcomes. Our results confirm the direction of focusing on the interactive patterns, utilizing multilevel models which permit to distinguish adolescents with a positive adjustment to the type 1 diabetes.