@article{3d9a353581fa417ba97fe56a6eabc24f,
title = "The Small-school Friendship Dynamics of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms",
abstract = "Adolescence is a time when depressive symptoms and friendships both intensify. The authors ask whether friendships change in response to depressive symptoms, whether individual distress is influenced by friends{\textquoteright} distress, and whether these processes vary by gender. To answer these questions, the authors use longitudinal Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis models to study how changes in friendships and depressive symptoms intertwine with each other among all adolescents as well as boy-only and girl-only networks in seven smaller K-12 Add Health schools. The findings indicate that distressed youth are more likely to be socially excluded, though depressive symptoms are also a basis for friendship formation. Moreover, friends influence one another's mood levels. These processes differ for boys and girls, however, such that distressed girls are more likely to face exclusion and distressed boys are more likely to befriend and subsequently influence one another.",
keywords = "adolescents, depressive symptoms, gender, networks",
author = "Cheadle, {Jacob E.} and Goosby, {Bridget J.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are thankful to William R. Avison, Christina Falci, Philip Schwadel, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, David F. Warner, and Tara D. Warner for their helpful comments. An earlier draft of this article was presented at the 2010 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, August 14 to 17. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health Web site ( http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth ). This research was supported by grant R03AA019479 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (principal investigator Jacob E. Cheadle) and grant K01 HD 065437 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (principal investigator Bridget Goosby). This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. All opinions and errors are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of either the helpful commentators or the funding agencies sponsoring Add Health. ",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1177/2156869312445211",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2",
pages = "99--119",
journal = "Society and Mental Health",
issn = "2156-8693",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "2",
}