Dynamics of adolescent friendship networks and smoking behavior

By Liesbeth A. G. Mercken, Tom A. B. Snijders, Christian E. G. Steglich, Erkki Vartiainen, Hein de Vries. Soc. Networks, 2010

324 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Ron A. Boschma
2. Pierre-Alexandre Balland
3. F. Garip
4. Fengqing Zhao
5. Robert W. Faris
6. Diane H Felmlee
7. Paul Dimaggio

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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2. Koen Frenken
3. Pierre-Alexandre Balland
4. F. Garip
5. Robert W. Faris
6. Diane H Felmlee
7. Paul Dimaggio

Citations in the corpus

• Status Struggles (2011, background): “First, one of the strongest predictors of adolescents’ behavior in a given domain is the behavior of their friends (Ennett and Bauman 1994; Mercken et al. 2010).”
• Proximity and Innovation: From Statics to Dynamics (2015, background): “…the idea that social networks tend to diffuse behavioural norms and shape individual’s characteristics as diverse as happiness (CACIOPPO et al., 2009), smoking (MERCKEN et al., 2010), drinking (STEGLICH et al., 2010), criminality (DIJKSTRA et al., 2010) or obesity (CHRISTAKIS and FOWLER, 2007).”
• Network Effects and Social Inequality (2012, background): “Cohen (1977), Mercken et al. (2009), and Flashman (2012), for example, find large selection effects in high-school peer groups, whereas McFarland & Pals (2005) find little selection between middle school and early high school.”
• The Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Adolescent Depression: The Roles of Social Support and Gender (2014, result): “Second, along with the studies showing the extremely important role of friend support in adolescents’ behavior (Mercken et al. 2010; Rueger et al. 2010), the results of this study deepen these studies by further investigating the moderating roles of different types of social support in the…”