
Residential landscape as a predictor of psychosocial stress in the life course from childhood to adolescence
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- Carola van Aart, Nathalie Michels (UGent) , Isabelle Sioen (UGent) , Annelies De Decker (UGent) , Esmee M Bijnens, Bram G Janssen, Stefaan De Henauw (UGent) and Tim S Nawrot
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- 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.
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- Residential landscape, Green space, Psychosocial stress, Children, Adolescents, NEIGHBORHOOD GREEN SPACE, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, BEHAVIORAL-PROBLEMS, AIR-POLLUTION, HEALTH, EXPOSURE, PARTICIPATION, COMMUNITIES, DISEASE, OBESITY
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8571669
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- van Aart, Carola, et al. “Residential Landscape as a Predictor of Psychosocial Stress in the Life Course from Childhood to Adolescence.” ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, vol. 120, 2018, pp. 456–63, doi:10.1016/j.envint.2018.08.028.
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- van Aart, C., Michels, N., Sioen, I., De Decker, A., Bijnens, E. M., Janssen, B. G., … Nawrot, T. S. (2018). Residential landscape as a predictor of psychosocial stress in the life course from childhood to adolescence. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, 120, 456–463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.08.028
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- Aart, Carola van, Nathalie Michels, Isabelle Sioen, Annelies De Decker, Esmee M Bijnens, Bram G Janssen, Stefaan De Henauw, and Tim S Nawrot. 2018. “Residential Landscape as a Predictor of Psychosocial Stress in the Life Course from Childhood to Adolescence.” ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 120: 456–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.08.028.
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- van Aart, Carola, Nathalie Michels, Isabelle Sioen, Annelies De Decker, Esmee M Bijnens, Bram G Janssen, Stefaan De Henauw, and Tim S Nawrot. 2018. “Residential Landscape as a Predictor of Psychosocial Stress in the Life Course from Childhood to Adolescence.” ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 120: 456–463. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2018.08.028.
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- 1.van Aart C, Michels N, Sioen I, De Decker A, Bijnens EM, Janssen BG, et al. Residential landscape as a predictor of psychosocial stress in the life course from childhood to adolescence. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2018;120:456–63.
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- [1]C. van Aart et al., “Residential landscape as a predictor of psychosocial stress in the life course from childhood to adolescence,” ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, vol. 120, pp. 456–463, 2018.
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