Hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorders

J MacKillop, R Agabio, SW Feldstein Ewing… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous
drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is associated with acute and …

Social relationships and health behavior across the life course

D Umberson, R Crosnoe… - Annual review of sociology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Sociological theory and research point to the importance of social relationships in affecting
health behavior. This work tends to focus on specific stages of the life course, with a division …

[BOOK][B] Social networks and health: Models, methods, and applications

TW Valente - 2010 - books.google.com
Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both
individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research …

[BOOK][B] The nature of adolescence

JC Coleman - 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the
key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on …

Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook. com

K Lewis, J Kaufman, M Gonzalez, A Wimmer… - Social networks, 2008 - Elsevier
Scholars have long recognized the potential of Internet-based communication technologies
for improving network research—potential that, to date, remains largely underexploited. In …

Peer social network processes and adolescent health behaviors: A systematic review

SC Montgomery, M Donnelly, P Bhatnagar, A Carlin… - Preventive …, 2020 - Elsevier
Research has highlighted the importance of peers for determining health behaviors in
adolescents, yet these behaviors have typically been investigated in isolation. We need to …

Family and peer predictors of substance use from early adolescence to early adulthood: An 11-year prospective analysis

MJ Van Ryzin, GM Fosco, TJ Dishion - Addictive behaviors, 2012 - Elsevier
The focus of this study was social (ie, family and peer) influences on substance use from
early adolescence to early adulthood. A large, ethnically diverse sample of early …

Social networks and health: a systematic review of sociocentric network studies in low-and middle-income countries

JM Perkins, SV Subramanian, NA Christakis - Social science & medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), naturally occurring social networks may be
particularly vital to health outcomes as extended webs of social ties often are the principal …

Nudge: concept, effectiveness, and ethics

Y Lin, M Osman, R Ashcroft - Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nudges are psychologically informed tools designed to promote behavioral change in order
to improve health and well-being. In this review, we focus on three areas of concern: theory …

Casualties of social combat: School networks of peer victimization and their consequences

R Faris, D Felmlee - American Sociological Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
We point to group processes of status conflict and norm enforcement as fundamental
elements in the development of school-based victimization. Socially vulnerable youth are …