Peer Networks

Mason, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-7424-2_8

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“…This type of screening needs to be sensitive to children's strong protective feelings of their peers, particularly if these screens are only focusing on risk behaviors. Including pro-social behavioral assessment as part of a general health screening, would reduce potential resistance and may provide more accurate data (Mason, 2014). In terms of clinical approaches, peer-focused interventions such as Peer Network Counseling, has shown promising outcomes with adolescents by leveraging the importance of peers.…”

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“…This approach is known as an ego-centric network design where individuals identify his or her close peers and their relationships. This design obtains estimates of peer effects without conducting a full social network analysis and is widely used (Deutsch, Chernyavskiy, Steinley, & Slutske, 2015;Mason, 2014;Valente et al, 2013).…”

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Adolescent Depression and Substance Use: the Protective Role of Prosocial Peer Behavior

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Mennis

Russell

et al. 2018

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Adolescents with depression disorders have higher rates of substance use. In order to advance contextually relevant mental health interventions, basic research is needed to test social ecological mechanisms hypothesized to influence adolescent depression and substance use. Accordingly, we conducted growth curve modeling with a sample of 248 urban adolescents to determine if depression's effect on substance use was dependent upon peer network health (sum of peer risk and protective behaviors) and activity space risk (likelihood of high-risk behaviors at routine locations). Results showed that peer network health moderated the effects of depression on substance use, but this effect was not altered by activity space risk. These findings suggest the importance of peer network health relative to depression and substance use, particularly for young adolescents.

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Adolescent Depression and Substance Use: the Protective Role of Prosocial Peer Behavior

Mason

Mennis

Russell

et al. 2018

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…Selection refers to the tendency of people with similar characteristics and behaviors to form social bonds. Influence or socialization refers to the extent to which a person's behavior is influenced to some degree by that person's social contacts (Mason, 2014). Research has established that both of these mechanisms are salient and may be more prominent with varying substances (Cruz, Emery, & Turkheimer, 2012).…”

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Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use

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Adolescent substance use is a developmentally contingent social practice that is constituted within the routine social-environment of adolescents’ lives. Few studies have examined peer networks, perceived activity space risk (risk of substance use at routine locations), and substance use. We examined the moderating influence of peer network characteristics on the relationship between perceived activity space risk and substance use among a sample of 250 urban adolescents. Significant interactions were found between peer networks and perceived activity space risk on tobacco and marijuana use, such that protective peer networks reduced the effect of activity place risk on substance use. A significant 3-way interaction was found on marijuana use indicating that gender moderated peer network's effect on activity space risk. Conditional effect analysis found that boys' peer networks moderated the effect of perceived activity space risk on marijuana use, whereas for girls, the effect of perceived activity space risk on marijuana use was not moderated by their peer networks. These findings could advance theoretical models to inform social-environmental research among adolescents.

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“…Social networks can be defined as systems constituted as relational ties and interactions between a finite number of people and entities (Mason, 2014). Among these interactive systems is the peer network, or close friend network.…”

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Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users

Mason

Light

Campbell

et al. 2015

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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Close peer networks can affect adolescents’ health behaviors by altering their social environments, and thus their risk for and protection against substance use involvement. We tested a 20 minute intervention named Peer Network Counseling that integrates Motivational Interviewing and peer network strategies with 119 urban adolescents who reported occasional or problem substance use. Adolescents presenting at primary care clinic were randomized to intervention or control conditions and followed for 6 months. Mixed-effect latent growth models were used to evaluate intervention effects on trajectories of alcohol and marijuana use, offers to use substances, and moderation models to test for interactions between intervention condition and peer network characteristics. A significant intervention effect was found for boys for offers to use alcohol from friends (p<.05), along with a trend significant effect for alcohol use (p<.08). Intervention was more effective in reducing marijuana use, vs. control, for participants with more peer social support (p<.001) and with more peer encouragement for prosocial behavior (school, clubs, sports, religious activities); however, intervention did not affect these network characteristics. Results provide support to continue this line of research to test brief interventions that activate protective peer network characteristics among at-risk adolescents, while also raising some interesting gender-based intervention questions for future research.

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Peer Networks

Cited by 3 publications

References 94 publications

Adolescent Depression and Substance Use: the Protective Role of Prosocial Peer Behavior

Adolescent Depression and Substance Use: the Protective Role of Prosocial Peer Behavior

Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use

Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users

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