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The social context of adolescent smoking: A systems perspective

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  • Lakon, C.M.
  • Hipp, J.R.
  • Timberlake, D.S.

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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.

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  • Lakon, C.M. & Hipp, J.R. & Timberlake, D.S., 2010. "The social context of adolescent smoking: A systems perspective," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 100(7), pages 1218-1228.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2009.167973_1
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.167973
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    1. Dunbar, Michael S. & Nicosia, Nancy & Kilmer, Beau, 2021. "Exposure to new smoking environments and individual-level cigarette smoking behavior: Insights from exogenous assignment of military personnel," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 280(C).
    2. Lakon, Cynthia M. & Valente, Thomas W., 2012. "Social integration in friendship networks: The synergy of network structure and peer influence in relation to cigarette smoking among high risk adolescents," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(9), pages 1407-1417.

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