Pressure to drink but not to smoke: Disentangling selection and socialization in adolescent peer networks and peer groups
Publication year
2010Source
Journal of Adolescence, 33, 6, (2010), pp. 801-812ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Journal of Adolescence
Volume
vol. 33
Issue
iss. 6
Page start
p. 801
Page end
p. 812
Subject
Social DevelopmentAbstract
This paper examined the relative influence of selection and socialization on alcohol and tobacco use in adolescent peer networks and peer groups. The sample included 1419 Finnish secondary education students (690 males and 729 females, mean age 16 years at the outset) from nine schools. Participants identified three school friends and described their alcohol and tobacco use on two occasions one year apart. Actor-based models simultaneously examined changes in peer network ties and changes in individual behaviors for all participants within each school. Multi-level analyses examined changes in individual behaviors for adolescents entering new peer groups and adolescents in stable peer groups, both of which were embedded within the school-based peer networks. Similar results emerged from both analytic methods: Selection and socialization contributed to similarity of alcohol use, but only selection was a factor in tobacco use. (C) 2010 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents.
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