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

Wilkinson, Andra L; Fleming, Paul J; Halpern, Carolyn Tucker et al. (2018) Adherence to gender-typical behavior and high frequency substance use from adolescence into young adulthood. Psychol Men Masc 19:145-155
Turley, Patrick; Walters, Raymond K; Maghzian, Omeed et al. (2018) Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG. Nat Genet 50:229-237
Fish, Jessica N; Russell, Stephen T (2018) Have Mischievous Responders Misidentified Sexual Minority Youth Disparities in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health? Arch Sex Behav 47:1053-1067
Fishman, Samuel H; Min, Stella (2018) Maternal Age and Offspring's Educational Attainment. J Marriage Fam 80:853-870
Morrison, Ryann A; Martinez, Jonathan I; Hilton, Emily C et al. (2018) The influence of parents and schools on developmental trajectories of antisocial behaviors in Caucasian and African American youths. Dev Psychopathol :1-13
Kane, Jennifer B; Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Morgan, S Philip et al. (2018) Pathways of Health and Human Capital from Adolescence into Young Adulthood. Soc Forces 96:949-976
Wickrama, Kandauda A S; Lee, Tae Kyoung; O'Neal, Catherine Walker (2018) Genetic moderation of multiple pathways linking early cumulative socioeconomic adversity and young adults' cardiometabolic disease risk. Dev Psychopathol 30:165-177
King, Kevin M; Kim, Dale S; McCabe, Connor J (2018) Random responses inflate statistical estimates in heavily skewed addictions data. Drug Alcohol Depend 183:102-110
Scheidell, Joy D; Quinn, Kelly; McGorray, Susan P et al. (2018) Childhood traumatic experiences and the association with marijuana and cocaine use in adolescence through adulthood. Addiction 113:44-56
Willage, Barton (2018) The effect of weight on mental health: New evidence using genetic IVs. J Health Econ 57:113-130

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