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Robert W Faris
University of California, Davis, Sociology, Faculty Member
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The current study examined whether social status and social integration, two related but distinct indicators of an adolescent's standing within a peer network, mediate the association between risky symptoms (depressive symptoms and... more
The current study examined whether social status and social integration, two related but distinct indicators of an adolescent's standing within a peer network, mediate the association between risky symptoms (depressive symptoms and deviant behavior) and substance use across adolescence. The sample of 6,776 adolescents participated in up to seven waves of data collection spanning 6th to 12th grades. Scores indexing social status and integration were derived from a social network analysis of six schools and subsequent psychometric modeling. Results of latent growth models showed that social integration and status mediated the relation between risky symptoms and substance use and that risky symptoms mediated the relation between social standing and substance use during the high school transition. Before this transition, pathways involving deviant behavior led to high social integration and status and in turn to substance use. After this transition, both deviant behavior and depress...
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This study identified profiles of internalizing (anxiety and depression) and externalizing (delinquency and violence against peers) symptoms among bullying victims and examined associations between bullying victimization characteristics... more
This study identified profiles of internalizing (anxiety and depression) and externalizing (delinquency and violence against peers) symptoms among bullying victims and examined associations between bullying victimization characteristics and profile membership. The sample consisted of 1196 bullying victims in grades 8-10 (M = 14.4, SD = 1.01) who participated in The Context Study in three North Carolina counties in Fall 2003. Five profiles were identified using latent profile analysis: an asymptomatic profile and four profiles capturing combinations of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Associations between bullying characteristics and membership in symptom profiles were tested using multinomial logistic regression. More frequent victimization increased odds of membership in the two high internalizing profiles compared to the asymptomatic profile. Across all multinomial logistic regression models, when the high internalizing, high externalizing profile was the reference catego...
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This short-term longitudinal study examined whether the association between bullying perpetration and later physical dating violence perpetration and mediators of that association (via anger, depression, anxiety, and social status),... more
This short-term longitudinal study examined whether the association between bullying perpetration and later physical dating violence perpetration and mediators of that association (via anger, depression, anxiety, and social status), varied depending on level of bullying victimization. Differences have been noted between those who bully but are not victims of bullying, and those who are both bullies and victims. These differences may influence dating violence risk and the explanations for why bullying leads to dating violence. Data were from dating adolescents in three rural counties who completed self-administered questionnaires in the fall semester of grades 8-10 and again in the spring semester. The sample (N = 2,414) was 44.08% male and 61.31% white. Bullying perpetration in the fall semester predicted physical dating violence perpetration in the spring semester when there was no bullying victimization, but not when there was any bullying victimization. Bullying perpetration was positively associated with anger at all levels of bullying victimization and with social status when there was no or low amounts of victimization; it was negatively associated with social status at high levels of victimization. Bullying victimization was positively associated with anger, depression, and anxiety at all levels of bullying perpetration. Anger mediated the association between bullying perpetration and dating violence, regardless of level of victimization; depression, anxiety, and social status did not mediate the association at any level of bullying victimization. The findings have implications for dating violence prevention efforts and for future research on the link between bullying and dating violence. Aggr. Behav. 9999:1-16, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Page 240. 11 The Impacts of IDA Programs on Family Savings and Asset Holdings Michael A. Stegman and Robert Faris This chapter supplements the growing body of empirical analysis of the national individual development ...
... The context is a small village in northern China, and the story is about massive structural (and individual) change. The stories are taken from Report from a Chinese Village (Myrdal 1965). ... 516Social Science History ... The siege... more
... The context is a small village in northern China, and the story is about massive structural (and individual) change. The stories are taken from Report from a Chinese Village (Myrdal 1965). ... 516Social Science History ... The siege created shortages of food and fuel inside the city. ...
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ABSTRACT Online bibliographic databases have become widely available and are important resources to scientific researchers. These databases store rich information and many evolve into digital libraries. Using a bibliographic database of a... more
ABSTRACT Online bibliographic databases have become widely available and are important resources to scientific researchers. These databases store rich information and many evolve into digital libraries. Using a bibliographic database of a specific discipline, we can extract a co-authorship and citation network of individual professionals. This allows for the study of patterns in scholarly contributions as well as for the exploration of scientific disputes associated with an individuals career. We have designed a visualization tool, which we call PathWay, to discover and understand patterns and trends in the bibliographic data over a selected period of time. With PathWay, we conducted case studies on a bibliography of approximately 400,000 scientists in physics over a 26 year time period. In this paper, we show how PathWay can be used to characterize one's academic career path in terms of the publication record, conduct comparative studies that would be difficult to do with conventional search methods, and also provide a way to gain insight into the emergence and the career implications of the scientific disputes associated with publications.
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Recent studies of youth aggression have emphasized the role of network-based peer influence processes. Other scholars have suggested that aggression is often motivated by status concerns. We integrate these two veins of research by... more
Recent studies of youth aggression have emphasized the role of network-based peer influence processes. Other scholars have suggested that aggression is often motivated by status concerns. We integrate these two veins of research by considering the effects of peer status motivations on subsequent adolescent aggression, net of their own status motivations, prior aggression, and peer behavior. We also explore different levels at which peer effects may occur, considering the effects of reciprocated and unreciprocated friendships as well as larger, meso-level peer groups. We anticipate that peer group effects are magnified by both size and boundedness as measured by Freeman's (1972) Segregation Index. We find that, net of the adolescent's aggression at time 1, both the aggressive behaviors and the status valuations of friends independently increase the likelihood of aggression at time 2, six months later. The aggressive behavior of friends who do not reciprocate the adolescent...
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ABSTRACT With the popularity of social media in recent years, it has been a critical topic for social network designer to understand the factors that influence continued user participation in online newsgroups. Our study examines how... more
ABSTRACT With the popularity of social media in recent years, it has been a critical topic for social network designer to understand the factors that influence continued user participation in online newsgroups. Our study examines how feedback with different opinions is associated with participants' lifetime in online newsgroups. Firstly, we propose a new method of classifying different opinions among user interaction contents. Generally, we leverage user behavior information in online newsgroups to estimate their opinions and evaluate our classification results based on linguistic features. In addition, we also implement this opinion classification method into our SINCERE system as a real-time service. Based on this opinion classification tool, we use survival analysis to examine how others' feedback with different opinions influence continued participation. In our experiment, we analyze more than 88,770 interactions on the official Occupy LA Facebook page. Our final result shows that not only the feedback with the same opinions as the user, but also the feedback with different opinions can motivate continued user participation in online newsgroup. Furthermore, an interaction of feedback with both the same and different opinions can boost user continued participation to the greatest extent. This finding forms the basis of understanding how to improve online service in social media.
Sociolo~sts know surprisingly little about the reli~~us attitudes and practices of adolescents in the Un/t.ed States. This article be~rts to redress that laek of knowledge by examining descriptive findings on adolescent religiosi~ and... more
Sociolo~sts know surprisingly little about the reli~~us attitudes and practices of adolescents in the Un/t.ed States. This article be~rts to redress that laek of knowledge by examining descriptive findings on adolescent religiosi~ and attitudes toward religion from two recent, reputable ...
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Research Interests: Marketing, Adolescent Development, Life Style, Risk Taking, Adolescent, and 15 moreHumans, Child, Female, Male, Interpersonal Relations, Risk factors, Clinical Sciences, Family Relations, Peer group, Prevalence, Public health systems and services research, Risk Factors, Cross Sectional Studies, Adolescent Behavior, and Residence Characteristics
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ABSTRACT: Little is known,about TANF recipients and leavers use of consumer,credit. Using data from a 2001 North Carolina household survey of low-income households, we analyze banking and credit behavior of current and recent welfare... more
ABSTRACT: Little is known,about TANF recipients and leavers use of consumer,credit. Using data from a 2001 North Carolina household survey of low-income households, we analyze banking and credit behavior of current and recent welfare recipients in Charlotte, North Carolina. Other things equal, TANF families are 70% less likely than other low-income families to have,a bank,account,and,much,more,likely to have,participated,in a credit counseling
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Christian Smith is Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB 3210, Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. E-mail: cssmith@ email.... more
Christian Smith is Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB 3210, Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. E-mail: cssmith@ email. unc. edu
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Child Development, Human Development, Adolescent, and 15 moreSocial Control, Humans, Learning theories, Child, Social Context, Alcohol Drinking, Conceptual Framework, Interpersonal Relations, Parents, Observer Variation, Adult, Longitudinal Study, Problem Behavior, Alcohol Use, and Adolescent Behavior
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ABSTRACT The growing popularity and diversity of social network applications present new opportunities as well as new challenges. The resulting social networks have high value to business intelligence, sociological studies, organizational... more
ABSTRACT The growing popularity and diversity of social network applications present new opportunities as well as new challenges. The resulting social networks have high value to business intelligence, sociological studies, organizational studies, epidemical studies, etc. The ability to explore and extract information of interest from the networks is thus crucial. However, these networks are often large and composed of multi-categorical nodes and edges, making it difficult to visualize and reason with conventional methods. In this paper, we show how to combine statistical methods with visualization to address these challenges, and how to arrange layouts differently to better bring out different aspects of the networks. We applied our methods to several social networks to demonstrate their effectiveness in characterizing the networks and clarifying the structures of interest, leading to new findings.