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KMID : 1151020190470030171
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Mental Health & Social Work
2019 Volume.47 No. 3 p.171 ~ p.199
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Adolescent Peer Relationships and Drinking Smoking Experiences : Application of Social Network Analysis
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Kim Yong-Seok
Song Jin-Hee
Shin Hee-Yeon
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Abstract
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This study, recognizing the importance of the influences of relationships on behaviors, measured peer relations using social network analysis, and then analyzed the relationships between peer relations and health-risk behaviors. Social network analysis provides information on both adolescents’ positions in their peer networks and the patterns of their actual peer relations. A total of 443 students in two middle schools located in Gyeonggi Province participated in this study. Four centrality measures were calculated. Degree centrality measures the number of links to and from an adolescent, closeness centrality measures the average distance an adolescent is from all other adolescents in a network, betweenness centrality measures the frequency an adolescent lies on the shortest path connection everyone else in a network and eigenvector centrality measures the popularity of each adolescent. Logistic regression analysis identified that outdegree centrality was negatively related to drinking or smoking experiences and outcloseness centrality was positively related to drinking or smoking experiences. Finally, it was suggested that social network analysis could be applied to prevent adolescent drinking and smoking.
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KEYWORD
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adolescents, peer relationships, drinking, smoking, centrality, social network analysis
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