Alcohol use among adolescent youth: the role of friendship networks and family factors in multiple school studies.

To explore the co-evolution of friendship tie choice and alcohol use behavior among 1,284 adolescents from 12 small schools and 976 adolescents from one big school sampled in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (AddHealth), we apply a Stochastic Actor-Based (SAB) approach i...

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Main Authors: Cheng Wang, John R Hipp, Carter T Butts, Rupa Jose, Cynthia M Lakon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4355410?pdf=render