Copeland Molly
Michigan State University, USA.
Soc Forces. 2022 Apr 18;101(3):1396-1421. doi: 10.1093/sf/soac034. eCollection 2023 Mar.
In adolescence, teens manage close friendships while simultaneously evaluating their social position in the larger peer context. Conceptualizing distinct local and global network structures clarifies how social integration relates to mental wellbeing. Examining local cohesion and global embeddedness in the context of key factors related to mental health, such as gender and friends' depression, can further distinguish when the structure and content of social integration relate to higher and lower depressive levels. Analyses using survey data from PROSPER ( = 27,091, grades 9-12) indicate global embeddedness is generally protective, but for girls, greater global embeddedness when friends are more depressive is associated with increased depressive symptoms. For girls, greater local cohesion reduces associations between more depressive friends and increased depressive levels, while for boys, both local cohesion and friends' depression are largely irrelevant. Results indicate the importance of considering both local and global network integration in tandem with gender and friends' depression to understand how social integration relates to mental health.
在青春期，青少年在维持亲密友谊的同时，也在更大的同龄人背景下评估自己的社会地位。将不同的局部和全局网络结构概念化，有助于阐明社会融合与心理健康之间的关系。在与心理健康相关的关键因素（如性别和朋友的抑郁情况）的背景下，研究局部凝聚力和全局嵌入性，可以进一步区分社会融合的结构和内容何时与较高或较低的抑郁水平相关。使用来自PROSPER（n = 27,091，9至12年级）的调查数据进行的分析表明，全局嵌入性通常具有保护作用，但对于女孩来说，当朋友抑郁程度更高时，更大的全局嵌入性与抑郁症状增加有关。对于女孩来说，更大的局部凝聚力会减少抑郁程度较高的朋友与抑郁水平上升之间的关联，而对于男孩来说，局部凝聚力和朋友的抑郁情况在很大程度上无关紧要。结果表明，在理解社会融合与心理健康的关系时，结合性别和朋友的抑郁情况同时考虑局部和全局网络整合非常重要。
