M Copeland
Biographic Data
| ID | 56043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Copeland |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Copeland |
| SIGNATURE | COPELAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4311-2673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Life Course Depressive Symptoms: Do Peer Network Ties Buffer or Amplify?
Childhood adversity affects life course mental health, but patterns may differ across adversity exposures or across social experiences that buffer or amplify risks of adversity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( N = 7,597), we join the life course perspective with social networks and the stress process model to explore the relationships between adverse childhood experiences, peer networks, and depress…
Social network structure and composition predicting cognitive impairment: Racial/ethnic differences among older adults
Results suggest that tight-knit networks and multiple relationship types may be more supportive for cognitive health for Hispanic and Black older adults. This study contributes to research on social networks, cognitive health, and healthy aging for diverse older populations
Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study
Peer-relationships are critically important for adolescent behavior, but how peer-friendship network composition and structure influence adolescent self-harm is less clear. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the association between in-school peer-friendship networks, gender, and self-harm among inner-city adolescents. Participants were 2203 adolescents (mean age = 12.5 years, SD = 1.0; 53% girls) attending inner-city south Londo…
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms
Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to …
Predictors of romantic partner nomination reciprocity in adolescent social networks
Our Friends Keep Us Together: The Stability of Adolescents’ Cross-Race Friendships
Substantive racial integration depends on both access to cross-race friendship opportunities (demographic integration) and the development of stable and rewarding social relations (social integration). Yet, we know little about the relative stability of cross-race friendship nominations over time. Cross-race friendships are also experienced within social contexts, where other individual, dyadic, and contextual factors may simultaneously affect wh…
To make and keep friends: The role of health status in adolescent network tie formation and persistence
Marital Status Differences in Loneliness Among Older Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms
Associations of peer generational status on adolescent weight across Hispanic immigrant generations: A social network analysis
The generational status of peers in Hispanic adolescents' social networks, particularly the proportion that are second-generation Hispanic, moderates the positive association between immigrant generation and BMI. Moreover, this moderation effect is different across immigrant generations so that the proportion of second-generation adolescents within a social network is associated with higher BMI in first-generation Hispanic adolescents, but with l…
Embedded Distress: Social Integration, Gender, and Adolescent Depression
In adolescence, teens manage close friendships while simultaneously evaluating their social position in the larger peer context. Conceptualizing distinct local and global network structures clarifies how social integration relates to mental wellbeing. Examining local cohesion and global embeddedness in the context of key factors related to mental health, such as gender and friends' depression, can further distinguish when the structure and conten…
Who Gets Help? A National Longitudinal Study of Personal Networks and Pandemic Support Among Older Adults
Older adults' prepandemic confidant network structure and composition can provide underlying conditions for receiving pandemic social support. Findings speak to policies and programs that aim to foster social support or identify vulnerable groups that suffer the greatest unmet need for support during a global crisis
Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent's Gender
Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and p…
The Long Shadow of Peers: Adolescent Networks and Young Adult Mental Health
Connections with peers play an important role in adolescent mental health, but their lasting impact is unclear. This study examines whether structural status and support in adolescent networks predict depressive symptoms years later. Using data from the PROSPER Peers study (n = 1017), I find that the persistent effects of networks differ based on the mental health of teens and their friends. Structures of status and support relate to young adult …
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories
Peer connections in adolescence shape mental health in ways that differ by gender. However, it is unclear whether this association has an enduring impact on life course mental health. Using growth models with survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health Waves I-IV, N = 13,821, 51% white, 49% male), we examine how two dimensions of social integration during adolescence-popularity and sociality-predict …
Social Ties Cut Both Ways: Self-Harm and Adolescent Peer Networks
Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence
Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior
Prevailing social network frameworks examine the association between peer ties and behaviors, such as smoking, but the role of social isolates is poorly understood. Some theories predict isolated adolescents are protected from peer influence that increases smoking, while others suggest isolates are more likely to initiate smoking because they lack the social control provided by peer friendships. Building on a growing literature that seeks to expl…
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories
Peer connections in adolescence shape mental health in ways that differ by gender. However, it is unclear whether this association has an enduring impact on life course mental health. Using growth models with survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health Waves I-IV, N = 13,821, 51% white, 49% male), we examine how two dimensions of social integration during adolescence-popularity and sociality-predict …
Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior
Prevailing social network frameworks examine the association between peer ties and behaviors, such as smoking, but the role of social isolates is poorly understood. Some theories predict isolated adolescents are protected from peer influence that increases smoking, while others suggest isolates are more likely to initiate smoking because they lack the social control provided by peer friendships. Building on a growing literature that seeks to expl…
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent's Gender
Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and p…
Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence
Social Ties Cut Both Ways: Self-Harm and Adolescent Peer Networks
Embedded Distress: Social Integration, Gender, and Adolescent Depression
In adolescence, teens manage close friendships while simultaneously evaluating their social position in the larger peer context. Conceptualizing distinct local and global network structures clarifies how social integration relates to mental wellbeing. Examining local cohesion and global embeddedness in the context of key factors related to mental health, such as gender and friends' depression, can further distinguish when the structure and conten…
Who Gets Help? A National Longitudinal Study of Personal Networks and Pandemic Support Among Older Adults
Older adults' prepandemic confidant network structure and composition can provide underlying conditions for receiving pandemic social support. Findings speak to policies and programs that aim to foster social support or identify vulnerable groups that suffer the greatest unmet need for support during a global crisis
Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study
Peer-relationships are critically important for adolescent behavior, but how peer-friendship network composition and structure influence adolescent self-harm is less clear. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the association between in-school peer-friendship networks, gender, and self-harm among inner-city adolescents. Participants were 2203 adolescents (mean age = 12.5 years, SD = 1.0; 53% girls) attending inner-city south Londo…
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms
Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to …
Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior
Prevailing social network frameworks examine the association between peer ties and behaviors, such as smoking, but the role of social isolates is poorly understood. Some theories predict isolated adolescents are protected from peer influence that increases smoking, while others suggest isolates are more likely to initiate smoking because they lack the social control provided by peer friendships. Building on a growing literature that seeks to expl…
Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence
Social Ties Cut Both Ways: Self-Harm and Adolescent Peer Networks
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories
Peer connections in adolescence shape mental health in ways that differ by gender. However, it is unclear whether this association has an enduring impact on life course mental health. Using growth models with survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health Waves I-IV, N = 13,821, 51% white, 49% male), we examine how two dimensions of social integration during adolescence-popularity and sociality-predict …
The Long Shadow of Peers: Adolescent Networks and Young Adult Mental Health
Connections with peers play an important role in adolescent mental health, but their lasting impact is unclear. This study examines whether structural status and support in adolescent networks predict depressive symptoms years later. Using data from the PROSPER Peers study (n = 1017), I find that the persistent effects of networks differ based on the mental health of teens and their friends. Structures of status and support relate to young adult …
Who Gets Help? A National Longitudinal Study of Personal Networks and Pandemic Support Among Older Adults
Older adults' prepandemic confidant network structure and composition can provide underlying conditions for receiving pandemic social support. Findings speak to policies and programs that aim to foster social support or identify vulnerable groups that suffer the greatest unmet need for support during a global crisis
Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent's Gender
Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and p…
Our Friends Keep Us Together: The Stability of Adolescents’ Cross-Race Friendships
Substantive racial integration depends on both access to cross-race friendship opportunities (demographic integration) and the development of stable and rewarding social relations (social integration). Yet, we know little about the relative stability of cross-race friendship nominations over time. Cross-race friendships are also experienced within social contexts, where other individual, dyadic, and contextual factors may simultaneously affect wh…
To make and keep friends: The role of health status in adolescent network tie formation and persistence
Marital Status Differences in Loneliness Among Older Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms
Associations of peer generational status on adolescent weight across Hispanic immigrant generations: A social network analysis
The generational status of peers in Hispanic adolescents' social networks, particularly the proportion that are second-generation Hispanic, moderates the positive association between immigrant generation and BMI. Moreover, this moderation effect is different across immigrant generations so that the proportion of second-generation adolescents within a social network is associated with higher BMI in first-generation Hispanic adolescents, but with l…
Embedded Distress: Social Integration, Gender, and Adolescent Depression
In adolescence, teens manage close friendships while simultaneously evaluating their social position in the larger peer context. Conceptualizing distinct local and global network structures clarifies how social integration relates to mental wellbeing. Examining local cohesion and global embeddedness in the context of key factors related to mental health, such as gender and friends' depression, can further distinguish when the structure and conten…
Predictors of romantic partner nomination reciprocity in adolescent social networks
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms
Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Life Course Depressive Symptoms: Do Peer Network Ties Buffer or Amplify?
Childhood adversity affects life course mental health, but patterns may differ across adversity exposures or across social experiences that buffer or amplify risks of adversity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( N = 7,597), we join the life course perspective with social networks and the stress process model to explore the relationships between adverse childhood experiences, peer networks, and depress…
Social network structure and composition predicting cognitive impairment: Racial/ethnic differences among older adults
Results suggest that tight-knit networks and multiple relationship types may be more supportive for cognitive health for Hispanic and Black older adults. This study contributes to research on social networks, cognitive health, and healthy aging for diverse older populations
Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study
Peer-relationships are critically important for adolescent behavior, but how peer-friendship network composition and structure influence adolescent self-harm is less clear. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the association between in-school peer-friendship networks, gender, and self-harm among inner-city adolescents. Participants were 2203 adolescents (mean age = 12.5 years, SD = 1.0; 53% girls) attending inner-city south Londo…
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Mental health (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)