Cascades of emotional support in friendship networks and adolescent smoking

Lakon, Cynthia M.; Wang, Cheng; Butts, Carter T.; Jose, Rupa; Hipp, John R.

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“…[14][15][16] Longitudinal research is particularly valuable for establishing appropriate temporal ordering that is necessary, albeit not sufficient, for causal inference, and in a growing number of longitudinal studies, researchers have documented protective effects of connectedness. [17][18][19][20][21][22][23] However, because this literature is still developing, there are some limitations to what is known about the role of connectedness over time. Some studies have relatively short periods of follow-up, documenting longitudinal protective effects in adolescence or early young adulthood.…”

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“…Some studies have relatively short periods of follow-up, documenting longitudinal protective effects in adolescence or early young adulthood. [17][18][19][20] The few studies with longer-term follow-up have almost all been focused on sexual risk or mental health and single indicators in these domains (ie, sexually transmitted infection [STI] diagnosis and suicidal ideation, respectively), with each study operationalizing connectedness differently and including a varied set of potential confounders. [21][22][23] Not only is there a need to address longterm effects for violence and substance use, including opioid use, but because health risks related to mental health, violence, sexual behavior, and substance use cooccur, 24,25 there is value in considering outcomes in these domains collectively, with a consistent analytic approach.…”

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Adolescent Connectedness and Adult Health Outcomes

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BACKGROUND: Because little is known about long-term effects of adolescent protective factors across multiple health domains, we examined associations between adolescent connectedness and multiple health-related outcomes in adulthood. METHODS: We used weighted data from Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 14 800). Linear and logistic models were used to examine associations between family and school connectedness in adolescence and self-reported health risk behaviors and experiences in adulthood, including emotional distress, suicidal thoughts and attempts, physical violence victimization and perpetration, intimate partner physical and sexual violence victimization, multiple sex partners, condom use, sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis, prescription drug misuse, and other illicit drug use. RESULTS: In multivariable analyses, school connectedness in adolescence had independent protective associations in adulthood, reducing emotional distress and odds of suicidal ideation, physical violence victimization and perpetration, multiple sex partners, STI diagnosis, prescription drug misuse, and other illicit drug use. Similarly, family connectedness had protective effects for emotional distress, all violence indicators, including intimate partner violence, multiple sex partners, STI diagnosis, and both substance use indicators. Compared to individuals with low scores for each type of connectedness, having high levels of both school and family connectedness was associated with 48% to 66% lower odds of health risk behaviors and experiences in adulthood, depending on the outcome. CONCLUSIONS: Family and school connectedness may have long-lasting protective effects across multiple health outcomes related to mental health, violence, sexual behavior, and substance use. Increasing both family and school connectedness during adolescence has the potential to promote overall health in adulthood.

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“…The prevalence of gender homophily further shapes friendship and social support relationships (Lakon et al, 2017;van Rijsewijk et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018). This tendency to interact more often with same-gender partners indicates that adolescents may develop an increased ability to read social cues within same-sex peer interactions.…”

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Discrepancies in the perception of social support relationships (Stage 1 Registered Report)

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Letina

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Objective: Prior research in the area of social support suggests that it is an important influential factor of mental health. Yet, it often remains unclear how much overlap there is between provided support, the perceived availability of support resources, and the factors that account for discrepancies. Mental health disorders tend to produce and are maintained by distorted perceptions of the social environment. Depressive symptoms, in particular, are associated with increasingly negative thought processes and evaluations of social relationships and interactions. Consequently, the present study seeks to identify the discrepancies in the perceptions between givers and receivers of support. We aim to assess the extent to which the individual attributes of mental health, loneliness, and gender are related to discrepancies in support provision. Method: In order to examine the research question, two school surveys will be utilized. First, we investigate dual-perspective networks of more than 3000 adolescents at 37 schools in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, using the second wave of the SOCIALBOND study. The analysis is based on complete network data from adolescents in the eighth grade, distinguishing between the nominations of adolescents who provide support and those who receive emotional support at the grade level. The analyses will be replicated using two cohorts of the Net4health pilot study. The aim is to conduct the analyses in diverse national contexts and for distinct mental health outcomes.Results: The preliminary findings based on the SOCIALBOND study indicate that there is a substantial amount of mismatch in individuals' perception of support relationships. Nevertheless, mental health and loneliness do not emerge as significant influential factors of discrepancies. In contrast, there is evidence for gender differences in misperceptions. Support provision is more likely to stay unnoticed when the provider is a young man, and young men are more likely to perceive support that was not intended.

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“…Emotional support encompasses feelings of encouragement, closeness, connection, and belongingness [ 4 ]. Emotional support has been most clearly related to health through both direct and buffering effects [ 28 ], and yet it remains one of the most elusive domains of social support for health because it relates to both salutary health outcomes [ 28 ] and adverse health outcomes [ 27 , 29 , 30 ]. Emotional support can be detrimental to health via support for behaviors which are detrimental to health [ 16 ].…”

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Social network tie functions of social support and social influence and adult smoking abstinence

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Zheng,

Pechmann

2024

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Adults’ social network ties serve multiple functions and play prominently in quitting smoking. We examined three types of adults’ egocentric social networks, including family, friends, and friends online to investigate how two network characteristics with major relevance to health behavior, network size and tie closeness, related to the emotional and confidant support and to pro- and anti-smoking social influence these ties may transmit. We also examine whether the social support and social influence constructs related to smoking abstinence. We utilized baseline and 7-day abstinence survey data from 123 adult current smokers attempting to quit prior to the start of a randomized controlled quit-smoking trial of a social support intervention for quitting smoking on Twitter. To examine study relationships, we estimated Negative Binomial Regression models and Logistic Regression models. For all networks, network size and tie closeness related positively to most of the social support and social influence constructs, with tie closeness related most strongly, especially for online friends. Family pro-smoking social influence related negatively to smoking abstinence, and there were marginally negative relationships for family emotional support and family confidant support. Online friend emotional support had a marginally positive relationship with smoking abstinence. Overall, our findings indicated the importance of the social support and social influence functions of each type of network tie, with larger networks and closer ties related to higher levels of social support and social influence. Moreover, family network pro-smoking social influence may compromise abstinence while emotional support from online friend network ties may reinforce it.

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Cascades of emotional support in friendship networks and adolescent smoking

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Adolescent Connectedness and Adult Health Outcomes

Adolescent Connectedness and Adult Health Outcomes

Discrepancies in the perception of social support relationships (Stage 1 Registered Report)

Social network tie functions of social support and social influence and adult smoking abstinence

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