Obesity-related behaviors in adolescent friendship networks

被引：179

作者：

de la Haye, Kayla ^{[1
]}

Robins, Garry ^{[2
]}

Mohr, Philip ^{[4
]}

Wilson, Carlene ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

[2] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia

[3] Flinders Univ S Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

[4] CSIRO Food & Nutr Sci, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia

来源：

SOCIAL NETWORKS | 2010年 / 32卷 / 03期

关键词：

Obesity; Health behavior; Adolescents; Social networks; Exponential random graph models; PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATIONS; HEALTH; AMERICAN; FATNESS; WEIGHT; MODELS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.socnet.2009.09.001

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

This study examines obesity-related behaviors within adolescent friendship networks, because adolescent peers have been identified as being important determinants of many health behaviors. We applied ERGM selection models for single network observations to determine if close adolescent friends engage in similar behaviors and to explore associations between behavior and popularity. Same-sex friends were found to be similar on measures of organized physical activity in two out of three school-based friendship networks. Female friends were found to engage in similar screen-based behaviors, and male friends tended to be similar in their consumption of high-calorie foods. Popularity (receiving ties) was also associated with some behaviors, although these effects were gender specific and differed across networks. Crown Copyright (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：161 / 167

页数：7

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