title: Simulating Dynamic Network Models and Adolescent Smoking: The Impact of Varying Peer Influence and Peer Selection.
abstract: We used a stochastic actor-based approach to examine the effect of peer influence and peer selection--the propensity to choose friends who are similar--on smoking among adolescents. Data were collected from 1994 to 1996 from 2 schools involved in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, with respectively 2178 and 976 students, and different levels of smoking. Our experimental manipulations of the peer influence and selection parameters in a simulation strategy indicated that stronger peer influence decreased school-level smoking. In contrast to the assumption that a smoker may induce a nonsmoker to begin smoking, adherence to antismoking norms may result in an adolescent nonsmoker inducing a smoker to stop smoking and reduce school-level smoking.
authors.affiliation: Cynthia M. Lakon is with the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine. John R. Hipp is with the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, and the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Cheng Wang is with the Department of Sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Carter T. Butts is with the Department of Sociology and the Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Rupa Jose is with the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, at the University of California, Irvine.
authors.forename: Cynthia M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lakon
authors.affiliation: Cynthia M. Lakon is with the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine. John R. Hipp is with the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, and the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Cheng Wang is with the Department of Sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Carter T. Butts is with the Department of Sociology and the Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Rupa Jose is with the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, at the University of California, Irvine.
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Hipp
authors.affiliation: Cynthia M. Lakon is with the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine. John R. Hipp is with the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, and the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Cheng Wang is with the Department of Sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Carter T. Butts is with the Department of Sociology and the Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Rupa Jose is with the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, at the University of California, Irvine.
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Cynthia M. Lakon is with the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine. John R. Hipp is with the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, and the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Cheng Wang is with the Department of Sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Carter T. Butts is with the Department of Sociology and the Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Rupa Jose is with the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, at the University of California, Irvine.
authors.forename: Carter T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Butts
authors.affiliation: Cynthia M. Lakon is with the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine. John R. Hipp is with the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, and the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Cheng Wang is with the Department of Sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Carter T. Butts is with the Department of Sociology and the Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Rupa Jose is with the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, at the University of California, Irvine.
authors.forename: Rupa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jose
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010379:Peer Group; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology