This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $134,938 to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to assess the impact of adolescent friendship networks on the psychosocial health of immigrant youth.
The research will examine differences in friendship patterns and processes between immigrant and non-immigrant youth, as well as compare measures of psychosocial health between these groups and test whether friendship patterns explain health disparities. During a later phase, the research will leverage surveys and network analysis methods to understand how the social contexts of friendships shape friendship patterns and composition, and test the relationship between immigrant youth's psychosocial health and these friendship measures, with a focus on distinctions between refugee and non-refugee youth. The findings are expected to position the PI to pursue an R01 grant for a more expansive, longitudinal study on the social integration and health of immigrant youth, particularly refugee youth, in the United States.
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