TY - JOUR
T1 - Siblings, friends, course-mates, club-mates
T2 - How adolescent health behavior homophily varies by race, class, gender, and health status
AU - Daw, Jonathan
AU - Margolis, Rachel
AU - Verdery, Ashton M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website ( http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth ). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. This research also uses data from the AHAA study, which was funded by a grant ( R01 HD040428-02 , Chandra Muller, PI) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , and a grant ( REC-0126167 , Chandra Muller, PI, and Pedro Reyes, Co-PI) from the National Science Foundation . This research was also supported by grant, 5 R24 HD042849, Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Health and Child Development. Opinions reflect those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the granting agencies. The authors also wish to acknowledge funding from National Institute of Health grants R24 HD066613 and T32 HD007289 , which supported this research. We are also grateful to the Carolina Population Center for training support (T32 HD007168) and for general support (R24 HD050924). We also acknowledge jimi adams and Jason Boardman for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Any errors are the authors' alone.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Many unhealthy behaviors develop during adolescence, and these behaviors can have fundamental consequences for health and mortality in adulthood. Social network structure and the degree of homophily in a network affect how health behaviors and innovations are spread. However, the degree of health behavior homophily across different social ties and within subpopulations is unknown. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by using a novel regression model to document the degree of homophily across various relationship types and subpopulations for behaviors of interest that are related to health outcomes. These patterns in health behavior homophily have implications for which behaviors and ties should be the subjects of future research and for predicting how homophily may shape health programs focused on specific subpopulations (gender, race, class, health status) or a specific social context (families, peer groups, classrooms, or school activities).
AB - Many unhealthy behaviors develop during adolescence, and these behaviors can have fundamental consequences for health and mortality in adulthood. Social network structure and the degree of homophily in a network affect how health behaviors and innovations are spread. However, the degree of health behavior homophily across different social ties and within subpopulations is unknown. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by using a novel regression model to document the degree of homophily across various relationship types and subpopulations for behaviors of interest that are related to health outcomes. These patterns in health behavior homophily have implications for which behaviors and ties should be the subjects of future research and for predicting how homophily may shape health programs focused on specific subpopulations (gender, race, class, health status) or a specific social context (families, peer groups, classrooms, or school activities).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.047
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.047
M3 - Article
C2 - 24673889
AN - SCOPUS:84919930061
SN - 0277-9536
VL - 125
SP - 32
EP - 39
JO - Ethics in Science and Medicine
JF - Ethics in Science and Medicine
ER -