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 content of social integration relate to higher and lower depressive levels. Analyses using survey data from PROSPER (n = 27,091, grades 9–12) indicate global embeddedness is generally protective, but for girls, greater global embeddedness when friends are more depressive is associated with increased depressive symptoms. For girls, greater local cohesion reduces associations between more depressive friends and increased depressive levels, while for boys, both local cohesion and friends’ depression are largely irrelevant. Results indicate the importance of considering both local and global network integration in tandem with gender and friends’ depression to understand how social integration relates to mental health.

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嵌入式困扰：社会融合、性别和青少年抑郁症

在青春期，青少年管理亲密的友谊，同时评估他们在更大的同伴环境中的社会地位。概念化不同的本地和全球网络结构阐明了社会融合与心理健康的关系。在与心理健康相关的关键因素（如性别和朋友抑郁）的背景下检查局部凝聚力和全局嵌入性，可以进一步区分社会融合的结构和内容何时与较高和较低的抑郁水平相关。使用 PROSPER（n = 27,091，9-12 年级）的调查数据进行的分析表明，全球嵌入通常具有保护作用，但对于女孩来说，当朋友更抑郁时，更大的全球嵌入与抑郁症状增加有关。对于女生来说，更大的本地凝聚力减少了更抑郁的朋友和更高的抑郁水平之间的联系，而对于男孩来说，本地凝聚力和朋友的抑郁程度在很大程度上是无关紧要的。结果表明，将本地和全球网络整合与性别和朋友的抑郁联系起来，对于理解社会整合与心理健康的关系非常重要。