Beyond Traditional Interaction: Exploring the functional form of the exposure-offending association across online network size

McCuddy, Timothy; Vogel, Matt

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.01.002

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“…This may be due to the publicness and availability of social media, which allow for frequent exposure to seemingly realistic portrayals of a range of peers. Beyond sexual activity, initial work suggests that exposure to peers’ risky social media content can influence other behaviors as well, including young peoples’ smoking attitudes and intentions (Yoo et al 2016), actual smoking behavior (Huang et al 2013), eating and weight-related beliefs and behaviors (for review, see Holland and Tiggemann 2016), and criminal activity (McCuddy and Vogel 2015). …”

Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

201

236

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As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences, including the ways that the social media context shapes a variety of peer relations constructs. This paper represents Part 2 of a two-part theoretical review. In this review, we offer a new model for understanding the transformative role of social media in adolescents' peer experiences, with the goal of stimulating future empirical work that is grounded in theory. The transformation framework suggests that the features of the social media context transform adolescents' peer experiences by changing their frequency or immediacy, amplifying demands, altering their qualitative nature, and/or offering new opportunities for compensatory or novel behaviors. In the current paper, we consider the ways that social media may transform peer relations constructs that often occur at the group level. Our review focuses on three key constructs: peer victimization, peer status, and peer influence. We selectively review and highlight existing evidence for the transformation of these domains through social media. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations and key conceptual principles for future work. The current framework offers a new theoretical perspective through which peer relations researchers may consider adolescent social media use.

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Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

201

236

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“…Research consistently demonstrates that individuals who associate with more deviant peers often report higher levels of crime, substance use, and deviance than individuals with fewer deviant peer associates (Elliott, Huizinga, & Ageton, 1985; Haynie & Osgood, 2005; Matsueda & Anderson, 1998; Vásquez & Zimmerman, 2014; Warr, 1998, 2002; see also Beaver et al, 2011). Drawing on a precedent that is largely rooted in the theoretical traditions promoted by Sutherland in the 1930s and 1940s, Warr (1998, p. 184) summarizes that peer effects are one of the “strongest” correlates of crime, and highlights that this relationship has been recognized “for decades.” As such, it has been well established that the effect of peers on behavior is both theoretically (e.g., see Agnew, 2006; Akers, 2009; Colvin, Cullen, & Vander Ven, 2002; Stafford & Warr, 1993; Sutherland, 1947) and empirically (e.g., Agnew, 1991; McCuddy & Vogel, 2015; Pratt et al, 2010) meaningful for the understanding of crime (see also Hoeben, Meldrum, Walker, & Young, 2016).…”

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Same feathers, different flocks: Breaking down the meaning of ‘behavioral Homophily’ in the etiology of crime

Boman

Mowen

2018

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Purpose: This study’s purpose is to (1) examine how behavioral homophily relates to deviance among friendship pairs and (2) to assess how deviance and non-deviance homophily may be independently and jointly important for deviant behavior. Methods: Using a sample of 2154 individuals nested within 1077 dyadic friendship pairs, a series of mixed-effects models explore how behavioral, deviance, and non-deviance homophily at the dyadic level relate to an actor’s theft, vandalism, violence, drug, and alcohol use. Results: Findings demonstrate that behavioral homophily is a more robust protective factor than risk factor for deviance. Specifically, non-deviance homophily is significantly more related to abstaining from offending than deviance homophily is in promoting offending for theft, vandalism, violence, and drug use. And while behavioral homophily was not significantly associated with alcohol use, deviance homophily related to higher levels of alcohol use and non-deviance homophily related to less alcohol use with relatively equal effect sizes. Conclusions: Behavioral homophily contains two empirically and theoretically distinct components – deviance and non-deviance homophily. While both criminological theory and research have long established that peers “matter,” behavioral homophily across friendships can operate in a bifurcated role by associating with offending while simultaneously relating to normative behavior.

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“…Although a fairly new field, online influence has been demonstrated in several studies. One study of young adults found that online exposure to criminal behavior was sensitive to the size of the network, in larger networks there is saturation point after which exposure to additional deviant behavior is no longer influential (McCuddy & Vogel, 2015). A study of college students found that a higher proportion of drug references within the online network predicted individual drug use (Cook et al, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Influence of Online-Only Friends on the Substance Use of Young Adults with a History of Childhood Maltreatment

Negriff

2018

Substance Use & Misuse

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Background: Existing research shows that having offline friends that use substances increases risk for individual substance use in adolescence. However, there is little research examining the influence of online social networks on substance use in young adulthood. Objectives: The present study examined the number of online-only Facebook friends (i.e., those with no in-person contact) that were substance users in relation to the participants’ alcohol and marijuana use in the past year. Methods: The sample (n=114) were selected from participants enrolled in a longitudinal study on childhood maltreatment in an urban city within the United States. The mean age of the sample was 21.84 (SD=1.43), 61% female. With participant permission, data were downloaded from Facebook to obtain the list of online friends. A self-report questionnaire recorded the substance use of each participant. Path analysis and logistic regression was used to examine a) the number of online-only friends who drink as a predictor of participants’ problem drinking, b) the number of online-only friends who smoke marijuana as a predictor of participants’ marijuana use, and c) moderation by maltreatment status. Results: The results showed a significant effect of the number of online-only friends who smoke marijuana on the participant’s marijuana use. However, after including offline friends this significant effect was no longer present, but offline friends predicted individual marijuana use. Conclusions/Importance: These findings demonstrate that substance use in online social networks may be associated with individual use in young adulthood, but that offline influence is stronger.

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Beyond Traditional Interaction: Exploring the functional form of the exposure-offending association across online network size

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Same feathers, different flocks: Breaking down the meaning of ‘behavioral Homophily’ in the etiology of crime

The Influence of Online-Only Friends on the Substance Use of Young Adults with a History of Childhood Maltreatment

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