A Network Method of Measuring Affiliation-Based Peer Influence: Assessing the Influences of Teammates' Smoking on Adolescent Smoking

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 442-451

  Fujimoto, Kayo ^a   Unger, Jennifer B ^a   Valente, Thomas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; SMOKING; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; SPORTS;

EID: 84858179547     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01729.x     Document Type: Article

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