TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Ties Cut Both Ways
T2 - Self-Harm and Adolescent Peer Networks
AU - Copeland, Molly
AU - Siennick, Sonja E.
AU - Feinberg, Mark E.
AU - Moody, James
AU - Ragan, Daniel T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the members of working groups at Duke and PSU for their helpful comments and acknowledge the contributions of study participants, families, and the PROSPER staff to making this project possible. M.C. contributed to study design, conducted analyses, wrote the manuscript and contributed to revisions; J.M. generated the networks; S.E.S., M.E.F. and J.M. contributed to study design, interpretation, and revisions; D.T.R. participated in revisions of analyses and draft. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. This research is supported by grants from the W. T. Grant Foundation (8316) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 A018225) to D. Wayne Osgood. The analyses used data from PROSPER, a project directed by R. L. Spoth, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA013709) and co-funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Due to the sensitive nature of data collected, the dataset is not available for public use at this time.
Funding Information:
This research is supported by grants from the W. T. Grant Foundation (8316) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 A018225) to D. Wayne Osgood. The analyses used data from PROSPER, a project directed by R. L. Spoth, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA013709) and co-funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - Peers play an important role in adolescence, a time when self-harm arises as a major health risk, but little is known about the social networks of adolescents who cut. Peer network positions can affect mental distress related to cutting or provide direct social motivations for self-harm. This study uses PROSPER survey data from U.S. high school students (n = 11,160, 48% male, grades 11 and 12), finding that social networks predict self-cutting net of demographics and depressive symptoms. In final models, bridging peers predicts higher self-cutting, while claiming more friends predicts lower cutting for boys. The findings suggest that researchers and practitioners should consider peer networks both a beneficial resource and source of risk associated with cutting for teens and recognize the sociostructural contexts of self-harm for adolescents more broadly.
AB - Peers play an important role in adolescence, a time when self-harm arises as a major health risk, but little is known about the social networks of adolescents who cut. Peer network positions can affect mental distress related to cutting or provide direct social motivations for self-harm. This study uses PROSPER survey data from U.S. high school students (n = 11,160, 48% male, grades 11 and 12), finding that social networks predict self-cutting net of demographics and depressive symptoms. In final models, bridging peers predicts higher self-cutting, while claiming more friends predicts lower cutting for boys. The findings suggest that researchers and practitioners should consider peer networks both a beneficial resource and source of risk associated with cutting for teens and recognize the sociostructural contexts of self-harm for adolescents more broadly.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-019-01011-4
DO - 10.1007/s10964-019-01011-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 30989471
AN - SCOPUS:85064612937
VL - 48
SP - 1506
EP - 1518
JO - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
JF - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
SN - 0047-2891
IS - 8
ER -
