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Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions
We know little about how smoking prevention interventions might leverage social network structures to enhance protective social norms. In this study we combined statistical and network science methods to explore how social networks influence social norms related to adolescent smoking in school-speci...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9944961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36810585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28161-7 |
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author | Montes, Felipe Blanco, Martha Useche, Andres F. Sanchez-Franco, Sharon Caro, Carlos Tong, Lei Li, Jie Zhou, Huiyu Murray, Jennifer M. Sarmiento, Olga L. Kee, Frank Hunter, Ruth F. |
author_facet | Montes, Felipe Blanco, Martha Useche, Andres F. Sanchez-Franco, Sharon Caro, Carlos Tong, Lei Li, Jie Zhou, Huiyu Murray, Jennifer M. Sarmiento, Olga L. Kee, Frank Hunter, Ruth F. |
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description | We know little about how smoking prevention interventions might leverage social network structures to enhance protective social norms. In this study we combined statistical and network science methods to explore how social networks influence social norms related to adolescent smoking in school-specific settings in Northern Ireland and Colombia. Pupils (12–15 years old) participated in two smoking prevention interventions in both countries (n = 1344). A Latent Transition Analysis identified three groups characterized by descriptive and injunctive norms towards smoking. We employed a Separable Temporal Random Graph Model to analyze homophily in social norms and conducted a descriptive analysis of the changes in the students’ and their friends’ social norms over time to account for social influence. The results showed that students were more likely to be friends with others who had social norms against smoking. However, students with social norms favorable towards smoking had more friends with similar views than the students with perceived norms against smoking, underlining the importance of network thresholds. Our results support the notation that the ASSIST intervention takes advantage of friendship networks to leverage greater change in the students' smoking social norms than the Dead Cool intervention, reiterating that social norms are subject to social influence. |
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spelling | pubmed-99449612023-02-23 Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions Montes, Felipe Blanco, Martha Useche, Andres F. Sanchez-Franco, Sharon Caro, Carlos Tong, Lei Li, Jie Zhou, Huiyu Murray, Jennifer M. Sarmiento, Olga L. Kee, Frank Hunter, Ruth F. Sci Rep Article We know little about how smoking prevention interventions might leverage social network structures to enhance protective social norms. In this study we combined statistical and network science methods to explore how social networks influence social norms related to adolescent smoking in school-specific settings in Northern Ireland and Colombia. Pupils (12–15 years old) participated in two smoking prevention interventions in both countries (n = 1344). A Latent Transition Analysis identified three groups characterized by descriptive and injunctive norms towards smoking. We employed a Separable Temporal Random Graph Model to analyze homophily in social norms and conducted a descriptive analysis of the changes in the students’ and their friends’ social norms over time to account for social influence. The results showed that students were more likely to be friends with others who had social norms against smoking. However, students with social norms favorable towards smoking had more friends with similar views than the students with perceived norms against smoking, underlining the importance of network thresholds. Our results support the notation that the ASSIST intervention takes advantage of friendship networks to leverage greater change in the students' smoking social norms than the Dead Cool intervention, reiterating that social norms are subject to social influence. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9944961/ /pubmed/36810585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28161-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Montes, Felipe Blanco, Martha Useche, Andres F. Sanchez-Franco, Sharon Caro, Carlos Tong, Lei Li, Jie Zhou, Huiyu Murray, Jennifer M. Sarmiento, Olga L. Kee, Frank Hunter, Ruth F. Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
title | Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
title_full | Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
title_fullStr | Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
title_short | Exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
title_sort | exploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9944961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36810585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28161-7 |
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