Adolescent health in relation to their peers: likeability as a resilience factor

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Ssm-Population Health Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI:10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101833

Jaap Nieuwenhuis , Daniël Veennema

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Abstract

Adolescence is a period in which health-related behaviors develop. Peer group influence plays an important role in this development. Some adolescents are, however, more or less resilient to peer influence. We argue that students’ likeability amongst their classroom peers functions as a resilience factor in the relation between the health of classroom peers and their own health. We test this by studying 7th grade students from the Taiwan Youth Project (N = 2350) in 81 classrooms, examining the differences in individual and classroom health one year later. The results show that there is indeed a contextual effect of classroom health on individual health, but this effect is weaker to nonexistent, the better liked a student is. Students who score low on likeability are most susceptible to peer influence. The moderation of likeability is only found for boys. Our study shows that likeability is an important resilience factor to social influence and offers insight in how contexts differentially shape individual behaviors.

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青春期是健康行为发展的时期。同伴群体的影响在这一发展中起着重要作用。然而，有些青少年或多或少能适应同伴的影响。我们认为，学生在课堂同伴中的受欢迎程度在课堂同伴的健康与自身健康之间的关系中起着弹性因素的作用。我们以台湾青年计划的七年级学生（N = 2350）为研究对象，在81个教室进行研究，观察一年后个体健康与教室健康的差异。结果表明，课堂健康对个体健康确实存在情境影响，但这种影响越弱或不存在，学生越受欢迎。在受欢迎程度上得分低的学生最容易受到同伴的影响。受欢迎程度的适度只存在于男孩身上。我们的研究表明，受欢迎程度是社会影响的一个重要弹性因素，并为环境如何不同地塑造个人行为提供了见解。

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Ssm-Population Health PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

2.10%

发文量

298

审稿时长

101 days

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