ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2019
Social Ties Cut Both Ways: Self-Harm and Adolescent Peer Networks.
Article in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The prevalence of self-injury in adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Temporal Associations Between Peer Networks and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese University Students: A Cross-Lagged Panel Study.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- The Relationships Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Connectedness, and Suicide Risk in Youth Presenting to the Emergency Department.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Understanding Social Influence of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: The Interplay of Peer Networks and Adolescent Behavior.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Risk of self-injurious behavior increases in adolescence: new findings.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Our Friends Keep Us Together: The Stability of Adolescents' Cross-Race Friendships.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2023Article
- Embedded Distress: Social Integration, Gender, and Adolescent Depression.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2023Article
- Friendship and self-harm: a retrospective qualitative study of young adults' experiences of supporting a friend who self-harmed during adolescence.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Use of social networks, video games and violent behaviour in adolescence among secondary school students in the Basque Country.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- School educational models and child mental health among K-12 students: a scoping review.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Peers play an important role in adolescence, a time when self-harm arises as a major health risk, but little is known about the social networks of adolescents who cut. Peer network positions can affect mental distress related to cutting or provide direct social motivations for self-harm. This study uses PROSPER survey data from U.S. high school students (n = 11,160, 48% male, grades 11 and 12), finding that social networks predict self-cutting net of demographics and depressive symptoms. In final models, bridging peers predicts higher self-cutting, while claiming more friends predicts lower cutting for boys. The findings suggest that researchers and practitioners should consider peer networks both a beneficial resource and source of risk associated with cutting for teens and recognize the sociostructural contexts of self-harm for adolescents more broadly.
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