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Rude, Jesse; Herda, Daniel – Social Forces, 2010
Our research uses two waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to analyze the stability of same- and cross-race friendships. We find the following: First, interracial friendships are less stable than same-race friendships, even after controlling for a variety of contextual and dyadic characteristics, such as school…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Composition, Friendship, Racial Differences
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ter Bogt, Tom F. M.; Delsing, Marc J. M. H.; van Zalk, Maarten; Christenson, Peter G.; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Social Forces, 2011
In this article, the continuity in music taste from parents to their children is discussed via a multi-actor design. In our models music preferences of 325 adolescents and both their parents were linked, with parental and adolescent educational level as covariates. Parents' preferences for different types of music that had been popular when they…
Descriptors: Music Education, Rock Music, Daughters, Parents
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Crosnoe, Robert; Frank, Kenneth; Mueller, Anna Strassmann – Social Forces, 2008
To investigate the role of body size in social networks, this study estimated cross-nested multilevel network models (p2) with longitudinal data from the 16 saturated schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. As body mass index increased, the likelihood of being nominated by schoolmates as friends--but not the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Females, Friendship, Adolescents
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Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Duncan, Greg J.; Boisjoly, Johanne – Social Forces, 2002
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health provide modest support for an association between adolescents' expectations for their future health and educational attainment and their risk-taking behaviors involving early sexual intercourse, selling drugs, and weapon use. Noteworthy "school climate" predictors were found,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Expectation