Understanding the effects of school social networks on young people's health

了解学校社交网络对年轻人健康的影响

• 批准号: G0701735/1
• 负责人: Adam Fletcher
• 金额: $ 32.32万
• 依托单位: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=G0701735%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; effects; social; networks; young

Adolescent health behaviours, such as smoking, drinking and drug use, are ‘social‘ behaviours and young people‘s attitudes and actions relating to these behaviours are influenced by their friendships and developing sense of identity. Research suggests that, as young people meet new friends, form strong relationships and develop their ‘identities‘ at secondary school, these in turn influence young people‘s health-related behaviours. Young people‘s use or rejection of substances such as cigarettes, alcohol and illegal drugs is a particularly important element in how many friendship groups identify themselves. For example, there are the ‘smokers‘ and ‘pot heads‘ using some or all of these substances and also the ‘football boys‘ and ‘sporty girls‘ who may reject these substances. The aim of this study is to explore further these ideas and investigate how schools influence the size, shape, identity and other characteristics of students‘ social networks and how these relate to aspects of young people‘s health-related behaviours. This study will use a mix of different research methods, including new analyses of existing quantitative data and interviews with groups of young people, to provide clearer evidence about the effects of school social networks on young people‘s health and, ultimately, to improve public health actions and inform further research in this area.

青少年健康行为，如吸烟、饮酒和吸毒，是“社会”行为，青年人与这些行为有关的态度和行动受到他们的友谊和正在形成的认同感的影响。研究表明，随着年轻人在中学结识新朋友，建立牢固的关系并发展他们的“身份”，这些反过来影响年轻人与健康相关的行为。青年人对香烟、酒精和非法毒品等物质的使用或拒绝是许多友谊团体自我认同的一个特别重要的因素。例如，“吸烟者”和“瘾君子”使用部分或全部这些物质，还有“足球男孩”和“运动女孩”可能会拒绝这些物质。本研究的目的是进一步探索这些想法，并调查学校如何影响学生社交网络的大小、形状、身份和其他特征，以及这些与年轻人健康相关行为的各个方面之间的关系。这项研究将混合使用不同的研究方法，包括对现有定量数据的新分析和对年轻人群体的访谈，以提供有关学校社交网络对年轻人健康影响的更明确证据，并最终改善公共卫生行动，并为该领域的进一步研究提供信息。