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- Title
The social context of adolescent smoking: a systems perspective.
- Authors
Lakon, Cynthia M; Hipp, John R; Timberlake, David S
- Abstract
We used a systems science perspective to examine adolescents' personal networks, school networks, and neighborhoods as a system through which emotional support and peer influence flow, and we sought to determine whether these flows affected past-month smoking at 2 time points, 1994-1995 and 1996. To test relationships, we employed structural equation modeling and used public-use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 6504). Personal network properties affected past-month smoking at both time points via the flow of emotional support. We observed a feedback loop from personal network properties to emotional support and then to past-month smoking. Past-month smoking at time 1 fed back to positively affect in-degree centrality (i.e., popularity). Findings suggest that networks and neighborhoods in this system positively affected past-month smoking via flows of emotional support.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 2010, Vol 100, Issue 7, p1218
- ISSN
1541-0048
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2009.167973