ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2019
Smoking Diffusion through Networks of Diverse, Urban American Adolescents over the High School Period.
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- Social influence on women's contraceptive use: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- Network Dynamics of Social Influence on E-cigarette Use Among an Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Cohort.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Social influence and advocacy pathways during a web-based program for adolescent smoking prevention.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Multilevel network interventions: Goals, actions, and outcomes.Social networks · 2023Article
- Social Network Influences on Adolescent E-cigarette Use.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
- Peer and Social Correlates of Smoking among Saudi Youth.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
This study uses recent data to investigate if smoking initiation diffuses through friendship networks over the high school period and explores if diffusion processes differ across schools. One thousand four hundred and twenty-five racially and ethnically diverse youth from four high schools in Los Angeles were surveyed four times over the high school period from 2010 to 2013. Probit regression models and stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics tested for peer effects on smoking initiation. Friend smoking was found to predict adolescent smoking, and smoking initiation diffused through friendship networks in some but not all of the schools. School differences in smoking rates and the popularity of smokers may be linked to differences in the diffusion of smoking through peer networks. We conclude that there are differences in peer effects on smoking initiation across schools that will be important to account for in network-based smoking interventions.
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