John M Light
Biographic Data
| ID | 121753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Light |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Light |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHT J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7815-5876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Effects of strength of relationship ties in recovery homes: A conundrum
House Level Latent Classes as Predictors of Recovery and Evictions
The current study explored whether substance abuse recovery houses could be categorized into meaningful classes, which might be associated with house evictions as well as changes in individual-level recovery capital. A total of 602 individuals from 42 recovery homes were followed for up to 6 data collection periods over 2 years. House level latent class analyses were based on house-level data. A 3-class model fit very well (entropy 0.94) and bett…
Understanding length of stay in recovery homes
Abstinence-specific social support within dyadic relationships is one of the best post-treatment prognostic indicators of recovery and is probably responsible for much of the effectiveness of self-help group participation. Acute treatment after-care in the form of sober-living environments-i.e., recovery houses-provides many opportunities for recovering individuals to acquire such support. However, like most recovery settings, recovery homes do n…
Social integration in recovery living environments: A dynamic network approach
Oxford Houses (OHs) are a large network of self‐run community‐based settings for individuals with substance use disorders. This present study explored a model based on conceptualizing recovery home social systems as dynamic multirelational (multiplex) social networks. The model is developed from data obtained from 42 OH recovery homes in three parts of the US, addressing whole networks of friendship, close friendship, and willingness to loan mone…
Dynamic interdependence of advice seeking, loaning, and recovery characteristics in recovery homes
Recovery homes in the US provide stable housing for over 200,000 individuals with past histories of homelessness, psychiatric co-morbidity and criminal justice involvement. We need to know more about how these settings help those remain in recovery. Our study measured advice seeking and willingness-to-loan relationships and operationalized them as a dynamic multiplex social network-multiple, simultaneous interdependent relationships--that exist w…
Personal and environmental social capital predictors of relapse following departure from recovery homes
Substance use recovery homes represent the largest residential, community-based post-treatment option for those with substance use disorders in the United States. It is still unclear what unique factors predict relapse after residents leave such homes. This study presents results of a longitudinal study of 497 residents who departed from 42 Oxford House recovery houses. We hypothesized that the predictors of post-departure relapse would be a mult…
Willingness to lend resources is associated with increases in recovery and participation in community activities
Recovery homes may facilitate individuals with substance use disorders re-integration back into community settings by providing friendship, resources, and advice. Participants of the current study were over 600 residents of 42 Oxford House recovery homes. Findings indicated that willingness to share resources in the form of loans was associated with higher levels of house involvement in recovery home chapters. Active involvement in house and comm…
Network measures of advice-seeking and resource sharing are related to well-being in recovery homes
Context Matters: Home‐level But Not Individual‐Level Recovery Social Capital Predicts Residents’ Relapse
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature on the prediction of substance use relapse, using sophisticated systems’ approaches to individuals and their contexts. In the current study of 42 recovery homes, we investigated the construct of social capital from the perspective of both recovery home residents and the house level. A confirmatory factor analysis found a latent recovery factor (including elements of recovery capital, co…
Reducing health disparities among black individuals in the post-treatment environment
An important step in reducing health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities with substance use disorders involves identifying interventions that lead to successful recovery outcomes for this population. The current study evaluated outcomes of a community-based recovery support program for those with substance use disorders. Participants included 632 residents of recovery homes in three states in the US. A multi-item recovery factor was fo…
Advice seeking and loaning of money related to relapse in recovery homes
Recovery homes help individuals who have completed substance use treatment programs re-integrate back into the community. However, it is unclear what factors determine who will succeed in these settings and how these factors may be reinforced or undermined by the social interactions and social networks between residents living in the Oxford House recovery homes. In an effort to better understand these factors, the current study evaluated (a) the …
Recovery home networks as social capital
Ensuring recovery home residents’ social integration into a home environment is important for preventing early dropout and facilitating sustained recovery. Social capital theory may provide an explanation for how recovery homes may protect residents and improve recovery rates. However, little is known about how social capital in recovery home environments is structured and accessed. Recovery homes may increase social capital by sharing bonds thro…
The relationship of Oxford Houses across heterogeneous house and setting characteristics
Oxford Houses (OH) are democratically run, self-funded, substance-use recovery homes that operate across the United States and internationally. Previous research shows the OHs are present in diverse neighborhoods. The current study examined the neighborhoods of 42 OHs located in Oregon, Texas, and North Carolina to better quantify and understand house and neighborhood characteristics that are related to relapse rates. Independent variables were p…
A promising recovery housing model for American Indian communities
In 2016, two Oxford House (OH) recovery homes were established for the Suquamish Tribal reservation. A group of researchers interviewed house members and key individuals responsible for the creation of these two unique OHs. Because American Indians are an at‐risk population for substance use disorders, our study explored whether an OH‐type recovery home model could be successfully adapted to this population, given the specific nature of tribal cu…
Influence of parent–youth relationship, parental monitoring, and parent substance use on adolescent substance use onset.
The quality of parent-child relationships likely influences many decisions and behaviors made by early adolescents, including their alcohol and marijuana use. We examined how parent-youth relationship quality, parental monitoring, and parent substance use were associated with initiation of alcohol use, binge drinking, and marijuana use by 400 adolescents by the spring of 8th grade (ages 13-14), and changes in initiation through 9th grade (assesse…
Strategic players for identifying optimal social network intervention subjects
The Relationship of Sense of Community and Trust to Hope
Settings that have ecological variables that instill hope might be particularly effective for treating individuals with substance use disorders. More specifically, trust and sense of community could be of importance in the fostering of hope among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders. Our study included a sample of individuals who were living in or had lived in Oxford House recovery homes. We found that both sense of community and …
Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use
Dynamic Social Networks in Recovery Homes
Acute treatment aftercare in the form of sober living environments—i.e., recovery houses—provide an inexpensive and effective medium‐term treatment alternative for many with substance use disorders. Limited evidence suggests that house‐situated social relationships and associated social support are critical determinants of how successful these residential experiences are for their members, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying these…
Antisocial Behavior Trajectories and Social Victimization Within and Between School Years in Early Adolescence
Antisocial behavior typically increases during early adolescence, but the possibility of seasonal variation has not been examined. In this study, trajectories of antisocial behavior were estimated for early adolescent boys and girls. Data were obtained from a 3-year longitudinal study of 11 middle schools in the western U.S. ( n = 5,742), with assessments completed four times per academic year. Antisocial behavior increased steadily throughout 6 …
Onset to First Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Network Diffusion Model
A novel version of Snijders's stochastic actor-based modeling (SABM) framework is applied to model the diffusion of first alcohol use through middle school-wide longitudinal networks of early adolescents, aged approximately 11-14 years. Models couple a standard SABM for friendship network evolution with a proportional hazard model for first alcohol use. Meta-analysis of individual models for 12 schools found significant effects for friendship sel…
Predicting American Indian Adolescent Substance Use Trajectories Following Inpatient Treatment
This study examined the effects of psychopathological, peer, family, and cultural predictors of American Indian adolescents' drug use following inpatient treatment. Data regarding lifetime, 90 days prior to treatment, and 1-year posttreatment substance use were collected using interviews, questionnaires, and observations of 57 American Indian adolescents and their families. Trajectories of days-used measures were subjected to semiparametric traje…
Fundamental principles of network formation among preschool children
Early adolescent antisocial behavior and peer rejection: A dynamic test of a developmental process
We present an empirical exploration of peer network mechanisms that encourage antisocial behavior in early adolescents. We apply SIENA, a network modeling methodology that addresses developmentally changing, statistically dependent interpersonal friendships
On getting good subject mileage: Reuse of subjects in experiments involving groups
Onset to First Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Network Diffusion Model
A novel version of Snijders's stochastic actor-based modeling (SABM) framework is applied to model the diffusion of first alcohol use through middle school-wide longitudinal networks of early adolescents, aged approximately 11-14 years. Models couple a standard SABM for friendship network evolution with a proportional hazard model for first alcohol use. Meta-analysis of individual models for 12 schools found significant effects for friendship sel…
Dynamic Social Networks in Recovery Homes
Acute treatment aftercare in the form of sober living environments—i.e., recovery houses—provide an inexpensive and effective medium‐term treatment alternative for many with substance use disorders. Limited evidence suggests that house‐situated social relationships and associated social support are critical determinants of how successful these residential experiences are for their members, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying these…
Laboratory Experimentation in Sociology
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use
The Relationship of Sense of Community and Trust to Hope
Settings that have ecological variables that instill hope might be particularly effective for treating individuals with substance use disorders. More specifically, trust and sense of community could be of importance in the fostering of hope among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders. Our study included a sample of individuals who were living in or had lived in Oxford House recovery homes. We found that both sense of community and …
Antisocial Behavior Trajectories and Social Victimization Within and Between School Years in Early Adolescence
Antisocial behavior typically increases during early adolescence, but the possibility of seasonal variation has not been examined. In this study, trajectories of antisocial behavior were estimated for early adolescent boys and girls. Data were obtained from a 3-year longitudinal study of 11 middle schools in the western U.S. ( n = 5,742), with assessments completed four times per academic year. Antisocial behavior increased steadily throughout 6 …
Context Matters: Home‐level But Not Individual‐Level Recovery Social Capital Predicts Residents’ Relapse
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature on the prediction of substance use relapse, using sophisticated systems’ approaches to individuals and their contexts. In the current study of 42 recovery homes, we investigated the construct of social capital from the perspective of both recovery home residents and the house level. A confirmatory factor analysis found a latent recovery factor (including elements of recovery capital, co…
Advice seeking and loaning of money related to relapse in recovery homes
Recovery homes help individuals who have completed substance use treatment programs re-integrate back into the community. However, it is unclear what factors determine who will succeed in these settings and how these factors may be reinforced or undermined by the social interactions and social networks between residents living in the Oxford House recovery homes. In an effort to better understand these factors, the current study evaluated (a) the …
Dynamic interdependence of advice seeking, loaning, and recovery characteristics in recovery homes
Recovery homes in the US provide stable housing for over 200,000 individuals with past histories of homelessness, psychiatric co-morbidity and criminal justice involvement. We need to know more about how these settings help those remain in recovery. Our study measured advice seeking and willingness-to-loan relationships and operationalized them as a dynamic multiplex social network-multiple, simultaneous interdependent relationships--that exist w…
Recovery home networks as social capital
Ensuring recovery home residents’ social integration into a home environment is important for preventing early dropout and facilitating sustained recovery. Social capital theory may provide an explanation for how recovery homes may protect residents and improve recovery rates. However, little is known about how social capital in recovery home environments is structured and accessed. Recovery homes may increase social capital by sharing bonds thro…
Strategic players for identifying optimal social network intervention subjects
Mathematical Models of Group Structure
Laboratory Experimentation in Sociology
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
On getting good subject mileage: Reuse of subjects in experiments involving groups
On getting good subject mileage: Reuse of subjects in experiments involving groups
Early adolescent antisocial behavior and peer rejection: A dynamic test of a developmental process
We present an empirical exploration of peer network mechanisms that encourage antisocial behavior in early adolescents. We apply SIENA, a network modeling methodology that addresses developmentally changing, statistically dependent interpersonal friendships
Fundamental principles of network formation among preschool children
Predicting American Indian Adolescent Substance Use Trajectories Following Inpatient Treatment
This study examined the effects of psychopathological, peer, family, and cultural predictors of American Indian adolescents' drug use following inpatient treatment. Data regarding lifetime, 90 days prior to treatment, and 1-year posttreatment substance use were collected using interviews, questionnaires, and observations of 57 American Indian adolescents and their families. Trajectories of days-used measures were subjected to semiparametric traje…
Antisocial Behavior Trajectories and Social Victimization Within and Between School Years in Early Adolescence
Antisocial behavior typically increases during early adolescence, but the possibility of seasonal variation has not been examined. In this study, trajectories of antisocial behavior were estimated for early adolescent boys and girls. Data were obtained from a 3-year longitudinal study of 11 middle schools in the western U.S. ( n = 5,742), with assessments completed four times per academic year. Antisocial behavior increased steadily throughout 6 …
Onset to First Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Network Diffusion Model
A novel version of Snijders's stochastic actor-based modeling (SABM) framework is applied to model the diffusion of first alcohol use through middle school-wide longitudinal networks of early adolescents, aged approximately 11-14 years. Models couple a standard SABM for friendship network evolution with a proportional hazard model for first alcohol use. Meta-analysis of individual models for 12 schools found significant effects for friendship sel…
Dynamic Social Networks in Recovery Homes
Acute treatment aftercare in the form of sober living environments—i.e., recovery houses—provide an inexpensive and effective medium‐term treatment alternative for many with substance use disorders. Limited evidence suggests that house‐situated social relationships and associated social support are critical determinants of how successful these residential experiences are for their members, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying these…
Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use
The Relationship of Sense of Community and Trust to Hope
Settings that have ecological variables that instill hope might be particularly effective for treating individuals with substance use disorders. More specifically, trust and sense of community could be of importance in the fostering of hope among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders. Our study included a sample of individuals who were living in or had lived in Oxford House recovery homes. We found that both sense of community and …
Influence of parent–youth relationship, parental monitoring, and parent substance use on adolescent substance use onset.
The quality of parent-child relationships likely influences many decisions and behaviors made by early adolescents, including their alcohol and marijuana use. We examined how parent-youth relationship quality, parental monitoring, and parent substance use were associated with initiation of alcohol use, binge drinking, and marijuana use by 400 adolescents by the spring of 8th grade (ages 13-14), and changes in initiation through 9th grade (assesse…
Strategic players for identifying optimal social network intervention subjects
A promising recovery housing model for American Indian communities
In 2016, two Oxford House (OH) recovery homes were established for the Suquamish Tribal reservation. A group of researchers interviewed house members and key individuals responsible for the creation of these two unique OHs. Because American Indians are an at‐risk population for substance use disorders, our study explored whether an OH‐type recovery home model could be successfully adapted to this population, given the specific nature of tribal cu…
Reducing health disparities among black individuals in the post-treatment environment
An important step in reducing health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities with substance use disorders involves identifying interventions that lead to successful recovery outcomes for this population. The current study evaluated outcomes of a community-based recovery support program for those with substance use disorders. Participants included 632 residents of recovery homes in three states in the US. A multi-item recovery factor was fo…
Advice seeking and loaning of money related to relapse in recovery homes
Recovery homes help individuals who have completed substance use treatment programs re-integrate back into the community. However, it is unclear what factors determine who will succeed in these settings and how these factors may be reinforced or undermined by the social interactions and social networks between residents living in the Oxford House recovery homes. In an effort to better understand these factors, the current study evaluated (a) the …
Recovery home networks as social capital
Ensuring recovery home residents’ social integration into a home environment is important for preventing early dropout and facilitating sustained recovery. Social capital theory may provide an explanation for how recovery homes may protect residents and improve recovery rates. However, little is known about how social capital in recovery home environments is structured and accessed. Recovery homes may increase social capital by sharing bonds thro…
The relationship of Oxford Houses across heterogeneous house and setting characteristics
Oxford Houses (OH) are democratically run, self-funded, substance-use recovery homes that operate across the United States and internationally. Previous research shows the OHs are present in diverse neighborhoods. The current study examined the neighborhoods of 42 OHs located in Oregon, Texas, and North Carolina to better quantify and understand house and neighborhood characteristics that are related to relapse rates. Independent variables were p…
Personal and environmental social capital predictors of relapse following departure from recovery homes
Substance use recovery homes represent the largest residential, community-based post-treatment option for those with substance use disorders in the United States. It is still unclear what unique factors predict relapse after residents leave such homes. This study presents results of a longitudinal study of 497 residents who departed from 42 Oxford House recovery houses. We hypothesized that the predictors of post-departure relapse would be a mult…
Willingness to lend resources is associated with increases in recovery and participation in community activities
Recovery homes may facilitate individuals with substance use disorders re-integration back into community settings by providing friendship, resources, and advice. Participants of the current study were over 600 residents of 42 Oxford House recovery homes. Findings indicated that willingness to share resources in the form of loans was associated with higher levels of house involvement in recovery home chapters. Active involvement in house and comm…
Network measures of advice-seeking and resource sharing are related to well-being in recovery homes
Context Matters: Home‐level But Not Individual‐Level Recovery Social Capital Predicts Residents’ Relapse
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature on the prediction of substance use relapse, using sophisticated systems’ approaches to individuals and their contexts. In the current study of 42 recovery homes, we investigated the construct of social capital from the perspective of both recovery home residents and the house level. A confirmatory factor analysis found a latent recovery factor (including elements of recovery capital, co…
Social integration in recovery living environments: A dynamic network approach
Oxford Houses (OHs) are a large network of self‐run community‐based settings for individuals with substance use disorders. This present study explored a model based on conceptualizing recovery home social systems as dynamic multirelational (multiplex) social networks. The model is developed from data obtained from 42 OH recovery homes in three parts of the US, addressing whole networks of friendship, close friendship, and willingness to loan mone…
Dynamic interdependence of advice seeking, loaning, and recovery characteristics in recovery homes
Recovery homes in the US provide stable housing for over 200,000 individuals with past histories of homelessness, psychiatric co-morbidity and criminal justice involvement. We need to know more about how these settings help those remain in recovery. Our study measured advice seeking and willingness-to-loan relationships and operationalized them as a dynamic multiplex social network-multiple, simultaneous interdependent relationships--that exist w…
Psychology (27 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Substance use (8 works)