FAMILY- AND COMMUNITY-LEVEL PREDICTORS OF PARENT SUPPORT SEEKING Cleve Redmond, Richard Spoth, and Linda Trudeau Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University  The influences of community- and family-level socio-demographic factors on parent formal and informal support-seeking activities were examined. Data analyzed were collected from 1,260 parents of sixth graders from 26 rural Iowa communities. Hierarchical linear modeling results indicated that both family- and community-level factors were significant predictors of parent support seeking. Findings at the family level indicated that household income, parent gender, and number of children were significantly predictive of informal support seeking; parent education and parent gender were significantly predictive of formal support seeking. In addition, significant community population size effects on informal parent support seeking were found. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Epidemiologic studies have shown the important influences of risk and protective factors originating in the family on adolescent substance use and other problem behaviors ~Conger & Elder, 1994; Dishion, Patterson, Stoolmiller, & Skinner, 1991; Hawkins Catalano, & Miller, 1992; Mrazek & Haggerty, 1994; Resnick et al., 1997; Shedler & Block, 1990! . Relatedly, a substantial body of literature indicates that par- enting practices play an important role in the prevention of such adolescent problem behaviors ~e.g., Hawkins et al., 1992; McMahon, 1999; Patterson, Chamberlain, & Reid, 1982; Spoth, Redmond, & Lepper, 1999; Spoth, Redmond, & Shin, 2001; Spoth, Redmond, Shin, & Huck, 1999! . Nonetheless, relatively little attention has been directed toward factors related to parents’ efforts to seek information and help in support of their child-rearing skills and strategies ~Raviv, Maddy-Weitzman, & Work on this paper was supported by research grants DA 07029 and DA 10815 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and by grant MH 49217 from the National Institute on Mental Health. Correspondence to: Cleve Redmond, Ph.D., the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, ISU Research Park, Building 2, Suite 500, 2625 North Loop Drive, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010-8296. E-mail: cleve@iastate.edu ARTICLE JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 30, No. 2, 153–171 (2002) © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.