L E Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 41523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L E Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | L E |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0070-0651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Depressed and anxious together: Decomposing the within- and between-subjects components of the clustering of internalizing symptoms in adolescent friendship networks
Adolescent depression and anxiety have reached historically high levels, and research consistently shows that these symptoms cluster among adolescent friends. Yet a critical question remains underexplored: does this clustering reflect the stable social environments adolescents are embedded in, or does it reflect dynamic, real-time emotional co-variation between friends? Using five waves of data from a large, diverse cohort of Southern California …
Who you know, what you believe, what you share: Personal networks and health misinformation susceptibility
Disentangling the Network Structure of Online Social Support: A Multilayer Network Analysis of a Twitter Long Covid Community
Online social support has been shown to be an important resource for people experiencing chronic illnesses. Although numerous studies have examined online support communities, few have conducted in-depth analyses grounded in social network theory and methodologies. To address this gap, this study investigates the types of support and the overall patterning of such exchanges (i.e., the network structure) on Twitter (now X), focusing on a community…
Effects of Online Friendships on Safer Sex Communication and Behavior among Black Sexual Minority Men: A Study of Network Exposure
This study draws on social normative and social learning theories to examine the masspersonal safer sex communication (i.e., Facebook posts about safer sex) and safer sex behavior (i.e., condom use) in a cohort of Black sexual minority men (BSMM) (N = 340), with an eye toward understanding their relationship with the safer sex communication and behaviors of their BSMM Facebook friends. Using linear network autocorrelation regression models, resul…
Multilevel sources of strength and school-based racial discrimination: Competing factors associated with mental health among African American college students
Policies are needed that hold accountable campus members who perpetrate race-based aggressions, tangible support systems involving African American mentors and cultural affinity groups, and strengths-based audits of students seeking mental health care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Demographic and HIV status diversities as mechanisms of social integration and segregation among Black sexual and gender minorities enrolled in a community-based social network intervention
Diagnosing PrEP Communication Self-Efficacy in a Community-Based Peer Leader Intervention for Black Sexual Minority Men
HIV prevention interventions that leverage endogenous peer leaders to communicate about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and other HIV prevention tools in their social networks offer a way to reach greater portions of communities most impacted by HIV like Black/African American gay, bisexual, same gender-loving, and other sexual minority men (BSMM). However, the success of these interventions hinge on the communication self-efficacy of its peer le…
The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Utilization of Different HIV Testing Strategies Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Texas
The Co-Evolution of Network Structure and PrEP Adoption among a Large Cohort of PrEP Peer Leaders: Implications for Intervention Evaluation and Community Capacity-Building
Background: Peer leader interventions are effective strategies for promoting prevention behaviors in communities at risk for HIV, yet little is known about their effects on the social and behavioral dynamics of peer leaders themselves. Methods: Using data from PrEP Chicago, an RCT PrEP for prevention intervention for young Black MSM (YBMSM), we apply stochastic actor-based models to longitudinally model the impact of study participation on the on…
The Structure of Social Support in Confidant Networks: Implications for Depression
Social support differs for depressed and non-depressed individuals. However, the structural features of social supports, as represented via social networks and how they are related to depression, and its mitigation, are unclear. Here, we examine associations between personal support network structures and self-reports of depression and depression mitigation behaviors. Cross-sectional data were collected from participants ( n = 1002 adults) recrui…
Disrupting the Covid-19 Misinfodemic With Network Interventions: Network Solutions for Network Problems
Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, a highly troublesome influx of viral misinformation threatens to exacerbate the crisis through its deleterious effects on public health outcomes and health behavior decisions. This “misinfodemic” has ignited a surge of ongoing research aimed at characterizing its content, identifying its sources, and documenting its effects. Noticeably absent as of yet is a cogent strategy to disrupt misinformation. We start wit…
The Co-evolution of online social networks and syphilis incidence among young black men who have sex with men
Modeling the dynamism of HIV information diffusion in multiplex networks of homeless youth
The potential of online social networking data for augmenting the study of high-risk personal networks among young men who have sex with men at-risk for HIV
Individual and Social Network Structure Characteristics Associated with Peer Change Agent Engagement and Impact in a PrEP Intervention
Facebook group affiliation ties, group topics, and HIV behavioral characteristics among young Black men who have sex with men: Potential for public health intervention
YBMSM were more likely to belong to personal/professional development groups.•YBMSM clustered around pairs of LGBTQ identity, sex, and nightlife groups.•Regular testers tended to belong to LGBTQ identity and nightlife groups.•Those who engaged in condomless sex tended to affiliate with LGBTQ identity groups.•Those who were aware of PrEP aware tended to affiliate with chat groups
HIV Prevention and Sex Behaviors as Organizing Mechanisms in a Facebook Group Affiliation Network Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Sex Behaviors as Social Cues Motivating Social Venue Patronage Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Network dynamics of HIV risk and prevention in a population-based cohort of young Black men who have sex with men
Critical to the development of improved HIV elimination efforts is a greater understanding of how social networks and their dynamics are related to HIV risk and prevention. In this paper, we examine network stability of confidant and sexual networks among young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). We use data from uConnect (2013–2016), a population-based, longitudinal cohort study. We use an innovative approach to measure both sexual and conf…
Social-structural properties and HIV prevention among young men who have sex with men in the ballroom house and independent gay family communities
Marijuana Use as a Sex-Drug is Associated with HIV Risk Among Black MSM and Their Network
Social Issue Emergence on the Web: A Dual Structurational Model
In this paper, we unravel the complex ontological relationship between the empirical hyperlink networks enacted by strategic organizational actors and the epistemic issue networks enacted by decision makers who navigate hyperlinks to construct the boundaries of an issue. To conceptualize this relationship, we present a dual structurational model of issue network emergence that demonstrates the processes by which decision makers come to read and s…
Factors Influencing Healthcare Utilization Within a Free Community Clinic
Advertising, Individual Consumption Levels, and the Natural Environment, 1900-2000
One central determinant of global environmental change is the continued expansion of personal consumption levels. In order to more fully understand the relationship between consumption and environmental degradation, the determinants of consumption must first be identified. Prior research in this area has focused on economic factors, primarily personal disposable income and population demographic characteristics. The role of cultural factors, incl…
The Wolverine Creek Sequence: Evidence for an allochthon below the Brooks Range Allochthon, western Brooks Range, Alaska
4 1, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys is charged with conducting "geological and geophysical surveys to detennine the potential of Alaskan land for production of metals, minerals, fuels, and geothermal resources
Network dynamics of HIV risk and prevention in a population-based cohort of young Black men who have sex with men
Critical to the development of improved HIV elimination efforts is a greater understanding of how social networks and their dynamics are related to HIV risk and prevention. In this paper, we examine network stability of confidant and sexual networks among young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). We use data from uConnect (2013–2016), a population-based, longitudinal cohort study. We use an innovative approach to measure both sexual and conf…
Social-structural properties and HIV prevention among young men who have sex with men in the ballroom house and independent gay family communities
Social Issue Emergence on the Web: A Dual Structurational Model
In this paper, we unravel the complex ontological relationship between the empirical hyperlink networks enacted by strategic organizational actors and the epistemic issue networks enacted by decision makers who navigate hyperlinks to construct the boundaries of an issue. To conceptualize this relationship, we present a dual structurational model of issue network emergence that demonstrates the processes by which decision makers come to read and s…
Advertising, Individual Consumption Levels, and the Natural Environment, 1900-2000
One central determinant of global environmental change is the continued expansion of personal consumption levels. In order to more fully understand the relationship between consumption and environmental degradation, the determinants of consumption must first be identified. Prior research in this area has focused on economic factors, primarily personal disposable income and population demographic characteristics. The role of cultural factors, incl…
Disrupting the Covid-19 Misinfodemic With Network Interventions: Network Solutions for Network Problems
Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, a highly troublesome influx of viral misinformation threatens to exacerbate the crisis through its deleterious effects on public health outcomes and health behavior decisions. This “misinfodemic” has ignited a surge of ongoing research aimed at characterizing its content, identifying its sources, and documenting its effects. Noticeably absent as of yet is a cogent strategy to disrupt misinformation. We start wit…
The Co-evolution of online social networks and syphilis incidence among young black men who have sex with men
What Price Progress? Uranium Production on Indian Lands in the San Juan Basin
STATUS REPORT].2. Uranium production technology is discussed in Part I, infra.3. Fuel requirements for reactors projected to be on line by 1988 have been estimated at 60,000 tons of uranium oxide yellowcake per year; by the year 2000 these requirements are expected to more than double
The Wolverine Creek Sequence: Evidence for an allochthon below the Brooks Range Allochthon, western Brooks Range, Alaska
4 1, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys is charged with conducting "geological and geophysical surveys to detennine the potential of Alaskan land for production of metals, minerals, fuels, and geothermal resources
Advertising, Individual Consumption Levels, and the Natural Environment, 1900-2000
One central determinant of global environmental change is the continued expansion of personal consumption levels. In order to more fully understand the relationship between consumption and environmental degradation, the determinants of consumption must first be identified. Prior research in this area has focused on economic factors, primarily personal disposable income and population demographic characteristics. The role of cultural factors, incl…
Factors Influencing Healthcare Utilization Within a Free Community Clinic
Social Issue Emergence on the Web: A Dual Structurational Model
In this paper, we unravel the complex ontological relationship between the empirical hyperlink networks enacted by strategic organizational actors and the epistemic issue networks enacted by decision makers who navigate hyperlinks to construct the boundaries of an issue. To conceptualize this relationship, we present a dual structurational model of issue network emergence that demonstrates the processes by which decision makers come to read and s…
Marijuana Use as a Sex-Drug is Associated with HIV Risk Among Black MSM and Their Network
Sex Behaviors as Social Cues Motivating Social Venue Patronage Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Network dynamics of HIV risk and prevention in a population-based cohort of young Black men who have sex with men
Critical to the development of improved HIV elimination efforts is a greater understanding of how social networks and their dynamics are related to HIV risk and prevention. In this paper, we examine network stability of confidant and sexual networks among young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). We use data from uConnect (2013–2016), a population-based, longitudinal cohort study. We use an innovative approach to measure both sexual and conf…
Social-structural properties and HIV prevention among young men who have sex with men in the ballroom house and independent gay family communities
HIV Prevention and Sex Behaviors as Organizing Mechanisms in a Facebook Group Affiliation Network Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Facebook group affiliation ties, group topics, and HIV behavioral characteristics among young Black men who have sex with men: Potential for public health intervention
YBMSM were more likely to belong to personal/professional development groups.•YBMSM clustered around pairs of LGBTQ identity, sex, and nightlife groups.•Regular testers tended to belong to LGBTQ identity and nightlife groups.•Those who engaged in condomless sex tended to affiliate with LGBTQ identity groups.•Those who were aware of PrEP aware tended to affiliate with chat groups
Modeling the dynamism of HIV information diffusion in multiplex networks of homeless youth
The potential of online social networking data for augmenting the study of high-risk personal networks among young men who have sex with men at-risk for HIV
Individual and Social Network Structure Characteristics Associated with Peer Change Agent Engagement and Impact in a PrEP Intervention
The Co-Evolution of Network Structure and PrEP Adoption among a Large Cohort of PrEP Peer Leaders: Implications for Intervention Evaluation and Community Capacity-Building
Background: Peer leader interventions are effective strategies for promoting prevention behaviors in communities at risk for HIV, yet little is known about their effects on the social and behavioral dynamics of peer leaders themselves. Methods: Using data from PrEP Chicago, an RCT PrEP for prevention intervention for young Black MSM (YBMSM), we apply stochastic actor-based models to longitudinally model the impact of study participation on the on…
The Structure of Social Support in Confidant Networks: Implications for Depression
Social support differs for depressed and non-depressed individuals. However, the structural features of social supports, as represented via social networks and how they are related to depression, and its mitigation, are unclear. Here, we examine associations between personal support network structures and self-reports of depression and depression mitigation behaviors. Cross-sectional data were collected from participants ( n = 1002 adults) recrui…
Disrupting the Covid-19 Misinfodemic With Network Interventions: Network Solutions for Network Problems
Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, a highly troublesome influx of viral misinformation threatens to exacerbate the crisis through its deleterious effects on public health outcomes and health behavior decisions. This “misinfodemic” has ignited a surge of ongoing research aimed at characterizing its content, identifying its sources, and documenting its effects. Noticeably absent as of yet is a cogent strategy to disrupt misinformation. We start wit…
The Co-evolution of online social networks and syphilis incidence among young black men who have sex with men
Diagnosing PrEP Communication Self-Efficacy in a Community-Based Peer Leader Intervention for Black Sexual Minority Men
HIV prevention interventions that leverage endogenous peer leaders to communicate about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and other HIV prevention tools in their social networks offer a way to reach greater portions of communities most impacted by HIV like Black/African American gay, bisexual, same gender-loving, and other sexual minority men (BSMM). However, the success of these interventions hinge on the communication self-efficacy of its peer le…
The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Utilization of Different HIV Testing Strategies Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Texas
Demographic and HIV status diversities as mechanisms of social integration and segregation among Black sexual and gender minorities enrolled in a community-based social network intervention
Effects of Online Friendships on Safer Sex Communication and Behavior among Black Sexual Minority Men: A Study of Network Exposure
This study draws on social normative and social learning theories to examine the masspersonal safer sex communication (i.e., Facebook posts about safer sex) and safer sex behavior (i.e., condom use) in a cohort of Black sexual minority men (BSMM) (N = 340), with an eye toward understanding their relationship with the safer sex communication and behaviors of their BSMM Facebook friends. Using linear network autocorrelation regression models, resul…
Multilevel sources of strength and school-based racial discrimination: Competing factors associated with mental health among African American college students
Policies are needed that hold accountable campus members who perpetrate race-based aggressions, tangible support systems involving African American mentors and cultural affinity groups, and strengths-based audits of students seeking mental health care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Depressed and anxious together: Decomposing the within- and between-subjects components of the clustering of internalizing symptoms in adolescent friendship networks
Adolescent depression and anxiety have reached historically high levels, and research consistently shows that these symptoms cluster among adolescent friends. Yet a critical question remains underexplored: does this clustering reflect the stable social environments adolescents are embedded in, or does it reflect dynamic, real-time emotional co-variation between friends? Using five waves of data from a large, diverse cohort of Southern California …
Who you know, what you believe, what you share: Personal networks and health misinformation susceptibility
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (11 works) · Social media (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (9 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (9 works) · Public health (9 works)