The current study used a sample of 1087 adolescents M 13.19 years, SD 0.90, 50 girls from 12 cultural groups in nine countries including China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States to test the cultural moderation of links between parent solicitation, parent behavior control, adolescent disclosure, and adolescent secrecy with adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. ...Moreover, parent driven communication efforts were predicted by adolescent disclosure in all cultures. Overall, the findings suggest that adolescent driven communication efforts, and adolescent secrecy in particular, are important predictors of adolescent psychological problems as well as facilitators of parent adolescent communication....