dc.contributor.author
Darabi, Debora
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Kluge, Ulrike
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Penka, Simone
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Mundt, Adrian P.
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Schouler-Ocak, Meryam
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Butler, Jeffrey
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Liu, Shuyan
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Heinz, Andreas
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Rapp, Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned
2024-08-19T11:47:18Z
dc.date.available
2024-08-19T11:47:18Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/44653
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-44364
dc.description.abstract
This study examines whether climate change-associated environmental stressors, including air and noise pollution, local heat levels, as well as a lack of surrounding greenspace, mediate the effects of local poverty on mental health, using the 28-item General Health Questionnaire. We recruited 478 adults who were representative of eleven of Berlin's inner-city neighborhoods. The relationship of individual-level variables, neighborhood-level sociodemographic and environmental data from the Berlin Senate (Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing) to mental health was assessed in a multilevel model using SPSS. We found that neither local exposure to environmental stressors, nor available greenspace as a protective factor, mediated the effects of local poverty on variance in mental health (all p values > 0.2). However, surrounding greenspace (r = -0.24, p < 0.001), nitrogen dioxide levels (r = 0.10, p < 0.05), noise pollution (rho = 0.15, p < 0.01), and particle pollution (r = 0.12, p < 0.001) were associated with local poverty, which, more strongly than individual factors, accounted for variance in mental health (beta = 0.47, p < 0.001). Our analysis indicates that the effects of local poverty on mental health are not mediated by environmental factors. Instead, local poverty was associated with both an increased mental health burden and the exposure to climate-related environmental stressors.
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dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Local poverty
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Mental health
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Environmental stressors
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dc.subject
Climate change
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Social justice
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dc.subject.ddc
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
dc.title
Environmental stress, minority status, and local poverty: risk factors for mental health in Berlin’s inner city
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1007/s00406-022-01508-3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
5
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
Springer Nature
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
1201
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
1206
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
273
refubium.affiliation
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
refubium.funding
Springer Nature DEAL
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pmid
36335286
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
0940-1334
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1433-8491