Cascades of Emotional Support in Friendship Networks and Adolescent Smoking

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2017 Jun 30

PMID 28662121

Citations 2

Authors

Cynthia M Lakon

Cheng Wang

Carter T Butts

Rupa Jose

John R Hipp

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Abstract

Social support from peers and parents provides a key socialization function during adolescence. We examine adolescent friendship networks using a Stochastic Actor-Based modeling approach to observe the flow of emotional support provision to peers and the effect of support from parents, while simultaneously modeling smoking behavior. We utilized one school (n = 976) from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (AddHealth) Study. Our findings suggest that emotional support is transacted through an interdependent contextual system, comprised of both peer and parental effects, with the latter also having distal indirect effects from youths' friends' parents.

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