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Anxious Solitude And Social Disinterest In Adolescent Friendship Development: A Short‐term Longitudinal Social Network AnalysisFindley, Danielle; Sijtsema, Jelle; Ojanen, TiinaPoster SessionAdolescents, Social Network Analysis, Friendship, Social WithdrawalSAT.PM3Social withdrawal has negative implications for number and quality of friendships. However, unlike anxious forms of solitude, recent research suggests thatnon‐fearful preference of solitude (social disinterest) is relatively benign in social development. In the present study, we examined the effects of anxioussolitude and social disinterest on the characteristics of adolescent friendship networks with the expectation that the former would be related to relativelymore negative friendship characteristics (e.g., unpopularity as a friend). Furthermore, selection and influence effects were explored with respect to bothvariables. Social network modeling (SIENA; Snijders et al., 2007) is used to examine the effects of anxious solitude and social disinterest on friendship selectionand social influence patterns of 504 Finnish adolescents (12‐14 years) across 3 time points. The networks consisted of friendship nominations within the 7thand 8th grade levels at school. Self‐reported social withdrawal variables (α = .85) were used as individual level covariates in the analyses. Thepreliminary findings support our overall hypothesis. Furthermore, it appears that similarity in adolescent friendships is driven by social selection and influenceeffects with respect to both forms of social withdrawal. Further analyses to examine effects of each construct on friendship development will be conducted.Applied Social Network Analysis: Using Social Network Analysis As Part Of An Edumetric Process In Interprofessional TeamworkCott, Cheryl A.; Guilcher, Sara; Ryan, David P.Sports, Teams and NetworksSports, Teams, networksSAT.PM2We describe a knowledge‐to‐practice initiative in which social network analysis was used in an edumetric process to enhance interprofessional teamwork inprimary care health teams. Edumetrics refers to the process of using research data as part of the educational process in order to stimulate a process of reflectionamongst participants and to help them to develop a set of actions/goals to address issues raised by the data. Measurement becomes more explicitlymeasurement and education. Members of participating primary care teams (e.g. family physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers) completed a questionnaireconsisting of a measure of team functioning plus social network data on two ties with other members of the primary care team (refer to each other; exchangeinformation with). Each team received a summary report of their team functioning scores and two sociograms (one per tie) with an analysis of their team’scentrality, network density, strength of ties, and reciprocity for each tie. Following receipt of the report, each team participated in a reflective exercise wherebythey developed a set of actions/goals to address the issues raised in the report. Ninety‐one primary health care teams participated in the study. Of these 42(46%) had a sufficiently high response rate to allow completion of the full social network analysis. Common issues that arose were lack of engagement of nontraditionalprimary care staff, multidisciplinary rather than interdisciplinary team functioning, and few cross referrals. We highlight how we used social networkdata to reach these conclusions and their impact on team development activities.