For years we have known that teenagers' peers influence their substance use. This book tells you how. It is not a simple explanation: it is based on the teenagers' own selection of peers and, in turn, the influence of those peers, but, in between, is the formation of social networks and the patterning of their peer ties. Chain reaction in teenagers' substance use result from the selection of peers, the patterning of peer ties and peer influence.
Author(s): Deirdre M. Kirke
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 216
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 23
Research on peers......Page 24
Research on peer groups using a social network approach......Page 26
Research on parents......Page 34
The relative impact of parents and peers......Page 36
Conclusion......Page 38
Introduction......Page 41
Sources of the data......Page 42
The pilot study......Page 44
Data collection......Page 45
Social network analysis......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 53
The teenagers......Page 55
Occupational status......Page 56
Leisure time......Page 59
Substances used by the teenagers......Page 60
Drugs......Page 61
Combinations of substances used......Page 62
Teenagers’ substance use by gender......Page 63
Teenagers’ substance use by age......Page 64
Teenagers’ substance use by occupational status......Page 65
Teenagers’ substance use by education......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 67
The teenagers’ families......Page 70
Teenagers’ substance use by intact or broken family home......Page 71
Teenagers’ substance use by employment status of parents......Page 72
Teenagers’ substance use by social class of the family......Page 73
Teenagers’ substance use by parental substance use......Page 74
Teenagers’ substance use by closeness to parents......Page 75
Teenagers’ substance use by parental influence......Page 77
Parental advice against substance use......Page 78
Parental control of teenagers’ free-time activities......Page 79
Teenagers’ substance use by siblings’ substance use......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 81
Introduction......Page 84
Selection of peers......Page 85
Formation of peer groups and the complete network......Page 87
Teenagers’ substance use by their social position......Page 89
Similarity in substance use in dyads......Page 93
Similarity in substance use in peer groups......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 99
Introduction......Page 102
Peer Group 4......Page 103
Peer Groups 8 and 9......Page 112
Conclusion......Page 115
Introduction......Page 118
Similarity in substance use in dyads in complete network......Page 119
Case studies of peer groups......Page 121
Peer Group 1......Page 122
Similarity in Peer Group 1......Page 129
Peer influence at first substance use in Peer Group 1......Page 130
Peer Group 2......Page 132
Similarity in Peer Group 2......Page 133
Peer influence at first substance use in Peer Group 2......Page 134
Similarity in Peer Group 3......Page 136
Peer influence at first substance use in Peer Group 3......Page 137
Peer influence in current substance use in Peer Group 3......Page 139
Conclusion......Page 140
Introduction......Page 144
Gender and the selection of peers......Page 145
Substance use among the teenagers by their gender......Page 148
Gender and peer influence......Page 153
Gender and the patterning of peer ties......Page 156
Gender in chain reactions......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 161
10 Discussion and Conclusion......Page 163
Discussion......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 176
Appendix A. Questionnaire......Page 181
Appendix B. Absolute Alcohol Consumption Index......Page 194
Appendix C. Drug Classes......Page 195
Appendix D. The Patterning of Peer Ties in Peer Groups 6 and 7......Page 196
D......Page 198
P......Page 199
S......Page 200
W......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 202
C......Page 210
F......Page 211
P......Page 212
R......Page 213
T......Page 214
W......Page 215
