A Latent Variable Approach to Measuring Social Dynamics in Adolescence
| Autor: | Nisha C. Gottfredson, Veronica T. Cole, Robert Faris, Andrea M. Hussong, William A. Rothenberg, Susan T. Ennett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Male Adolescent 050109 social psychology Latent variable Risk Assessment Article Developmental psychology Health Risk Behaviors Behavioral Neuroscience Social integration Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Latent variable model 05 social sciences Smoking Flexibility (personality) Social dynamics Adolescent Behavior Sociometric Techniques Female Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Deviance (sociology) 050104 developmental & child psychology Social status Adolescent health |
| Zdroj: | J Res Adolesc |
| ISSN: | 1532-7795 |
| Popis: | In the study of adolescent health, it is useful to derive indices of social dynamics from sociometric data, and to use these indices as predictors of health risk behaviors. In this manuscript, we introduce a flexible latent variable model as a novel way of obtaining estimates of social integration and social status from school-based sociometric data. Such scores provide the flexibility of a regression-based approach while accounting for measurement error in sociometric indicators. We demonstrate the utility of these factor scores in testing complex hypotheses through a combination of structural equation modeling and survival models, showing that deviance mediates the relationship between social status and smoking onset hazard at the transition to high school. |
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