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Research and theory on adolescent development suggest that the kinds of relationships adolescents have at home will matter to the social experiences they have in high school. This chapter explores these potential connections with network and survey data from high schools in a nationally-representative sample of adolescents. Overall, adolescents who had negative relationships with their parents were less likely to feel socially integrated with peers at school, even though they spent more time with peers. This general association does not vary by whether adolescents’ network positions indicated that they were popular but was more pronounced among adolescents with high sociability ratings (i.e., adolescents who nominated multiple peers as their friends). In general, results indicate that relationships with parents were not consistently implicated in peer dynamics at school, but, when relationships in the home and school were connected, they often pointed to social risks for adolescents with problems at home.
This research used data from Add Health, a program project designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris and funded by a grant P01-HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 17 other agencies. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design of Add Health. Persons interested in obtaining data files from Add Health should contact Add Health, Carolina Population Center, 123Â W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth/contract.html). The authors acknowledge the support of grants from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21AA020045-01, PI: Robert Crosnoe; R03AA019479, PI: Jacob Cheadle) and from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24 HD42849, PI: Mark Hayward; T32 HD007081-35, PI: R. Kelly Raley). Opinions reflect those of the authors and not necessarily those of the granting agencies.
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Crosnoe, R., Olson, J.S., Cheadle, J.E. (2018). Problems at Home, Peer Networks at School, and the Social Integration of Adolescents. In: Alwin, D., Felmlee, D., Kreager, D. (eds) Social Networks and the Life Course. Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71544-5_10
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