RT Article
T1 A Network Analysis of Factors Leading Adolescents to Befriend Substance-Using Peers
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 34
IS 1
SP 275
OP 312
A1 Schaefer, David R.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1688906118
AB Our interest is in the systematic network selection processes that lead adolescents into friendships with substance-using peers. Theory suggests that adolescents with certain risk factors (i.e., weak attachments to conventional society and low self-control) are more likely to select substance-using friends. Our goal is to evaluate whether adolescents with particular risk factors have a greater risk for befriending substance-using peers, while controlling for common network selection processes that can produce the same friendship pattern. These selection processes are important as they help to set the stage for later peer influence on substance use.
K1 Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model
K1 Social Network
K1 Weak attachments
K1 Self-control
K1 Substance Use
K1 Adolescents
K1 Substance use
K1 Social network
DO 10.1007/s10940-016-9335-4