Social contagion and high school dropout: The role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings.

Social contagion theories suggest that adolescents in relationships with same-age high school dropouts should be at a greater risk of dropping out themselves.Yet, few studies have examined this premise, and none have considered all potentially influential same-age intimates, focusing instead on only either friends or siblings.Moreover, a key influence in adolescents' social worlds, romantic partners, has been ignored.The goal of this study was...