Abstract

Social networks are the fundamental pathways for the transmission of values, behaviors, and disease. This project analyzes adolescent friendship, group affiliation, romantic relationship, and sexual partner network data to yield direct measures of the structure of the adolescent social world and to model the impact this structure has on health behavior. We focus on identifying cliques, their composition, and position in a network of cliques, thereby characterizing the macro-structure in which individuals are embedded. We propose to develop and estimate explanatory models of adolescent health behavior that use network variables to assess the effects of network position on health behavior. Special attention will be paid to health behaviors which carry specific short-term risk to adolescents or that are directly associated with transmission. In this project we intend to describe the structure of heterosexual contacts among adolescents and develop general behavior and attribute based mixing matrices necessary for mathematical models of STI and HIV transmission.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01HD031921-04
Application #
6241247
Study Section
Project Start
1997-03-01
Project End
1998-02-28
Budget Start
1996-10-01
Budget End
1997-09-30
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
1997
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Type
DUNS #
078861598
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599

  Publications

Goings, Trenette Clark; Hidalgo, Sebastian Teran; Howard, Matthew O (2018) Cigarette-smoking trajectories of monoracial and biracial Blacks: Testing the intermediate hypothesis. Am J Orthopsychiatry 88:354-362
Andrea, Sarah B; Messer, Lynne C; Marino, Miguel et al. (2018) Associations of Tipped and Untipped Service Work With Poor Mental Health in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Adolescents Followed Into Adulthood. Am J Epidemiol 187:2177-2185
Hartge, Joseph; Toledo, Patricia (2018) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its Comorbid Mental Disorders: An Evaluation of their Labor Market Outcomes. J Ment Health Policy Econ 21:105-121
van Draanen, Jenna; Prelip, Michael; Upchurch, Dawn M (2018) Consumption of fast food, sugar-sweetened beverages, artificially-sweetened beverages and allostatic load among young adults. Prev Med Rep 10:212-217
Nagata, Jason M; Garber, Andrea K; Tabler, Jennifer L et al. (2018) Prevalence and Correlates of Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Young Adults with Overweight or Obesity. J Gen Intern Med 33:1337-1343
Samari, Goleen; Coleman-Minahan, Kate (2018) Parental Gender Expectations by Socioeconomic Status and Nativity: Implications for Contraceptive Use. Sex Roles 78:669-684
Belsky, Daniel W; Domingue, Benjamin W; Wedow, Robbee et al. (2018) Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:E7275-E7284
Raposa, Elizabeth B; Erickson, Lance D; Hagler, Matthew et al. (2018) How Economic Disadvantage Affects the Availability and Nature of Mentoring Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood. Am J Community Psychol 61:191-203
Jensen, Todd M; Lippold, Melissa A (2018) Patterns of stepfamily relationship quality and adolescents' short-term and long-term adjustment. J Fam Psychol 32:1130-1141
Gaydosh, Lauren; Schorpp, Kristen M; Chen, Edith et al. (2018) College completion predicts lower depression but higher metabolic syndrome among disadvantaged minorities in young adulthood. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:109-114

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