Cascades of emotional support in friendship networks and adolescent smoking

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 simulta...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-06, Vol.12 (6), p.e0180204-e0180204
Main Authors: Lakon, Cynthia M, Wang, Cheng, Butts, Carter T, Jose, Rupa, Hipp, John R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Cascades
Correlation analysis
Emotions
Health aspects
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Medicine and Health Sciences
Modelling
Parenting
Parents
Peer Group
People and Places
Probability theory
Smoking
Smoking - psychology
Social aspects
Social behavior
Social interactions
Social network analysis
Social networks
Social Sciences
Social Support
Stochasticity
Teenagers
Youth smoking
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0180204