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Title: | Residential landscape as a predictor of psychosocial stress in the life course from childhood to adolescence | Authors: | Van Aart, Carola J. C. Michels, Nathalie Sioen, Isabelle De Decker, Annelies BIJNENS, Esmee JANSSEN, Bram De Henauw, Stefaan NAWROT, Tim |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Source: | Environment international, 120, p. 456-463 | Abstract: | Background: The effects of residential landscape, i.e., land use and traffic, on psychosocial stress in children are unknown, even though childhood stress might negatively affect normal development. In a longitudinal study, we investigate whether the residential landscape predicts childhood psychosocial stress and whether associations are independent of noise and air pollution. Methods: Belgian children aged 6.7-12.2 (N = 172, 50.9% boys) were followed for three years (2012-2015). Information on stress was obtained using standardized behavioral and emotional questionnaires and by a measure of hair cortisol. Residential landscape, including natural, agricultural, industrial, residential areas, and traffic, in a 100-m to 5-km radius around each child's home was characterized. Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between psychosocial stress and the residential landscape were studied using linear regression and mixed models, while adjusting for age, sex, and parental socioeconomic status. Results: Natural landscapes were positively associated with better emotional status (increased happiness and lower sadness, anxiousness, and total negative emotions, beta = 0.14-0.17, 95% CI = 0.01-0.30). Similarly, we observed an inverse association between residential and traffic density with hyperactivity problems (beta = 0.13-0.18, 95% CI = 0.01-0.34). In longitudinal analyses, industrial area was a predictor of increases in negative emotions, while a natural landscape was for increases in happiness. Only the effect of natural landscape was partly explained by residential noise. Conclusion: Residential greenness in proximity to a child's residence might result in a better childhood emotional status, whereas poorer emotional status and behavioral problems (hyperactivity problems) were seen with residential and industrial areas and increased traffic density in proximity to a child's home. | Notes: | [Van Aart, Carola J. C.; Michels, Nathalie; Sioen, Isabelle; De Decker, Annelies; De Henauw, Stefaan] Univ Ghent, Dept Publ Hlth, Corneel Heymanslaan 10 4K3, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. [Sioen, Isabelle] Univ Ghent, Dept Food Safety & Food Qual, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. [Bijnens, Esmee M.; Janssen, Bram G.; Nawrot, Tim S.] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Martelarenlaan 43, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium. [De Henauw, Stefaan] Univ Coll Ghent, Vesalius, Dept Hlth Sci, Keramiekstr 80, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. [Nawrot, Tim S.] Leuven Univ, Dept Publ Hlth & Primary Care, Kapucijnenvoer 35 Blok D, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. | Keywords: | residential landscape; green space; psychosocial stress; children; adolescents;Residential landscape; Green space; Psychosocial stress; Children; Adolescents | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/28753 | ISSN: | 0160-4120 | e-ISSN: | 1873-6750 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.envint.2018.08.028 | ISI #: | 000448688500046 | Rights: | 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2019 |
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