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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2021

Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample.

Jennifer W Robinette, Georgiana Bostean, Laura M Glynn, Jason A Douglas, Brooke N Jenkins, Tara L Gruenewald, David A Frederick

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer W RobinettePsychology Department, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA. Electronic address: robinette@chapman.edu.
Georgiana BosteanDepartment of Sociology, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Laura M GlynnPsychology Department, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Jason A DouglasDepartment of Health Sciences, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Brooke N JenkinsPsychology Department, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Tara L GruenewaldPsychology Department, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
David A FrederickPsychology Department, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Chapman University · US

Funding

Neighborhood adversity and sensitivity to stress: a study of gene x environment interactions.R00AG055699 · NIA · CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY · PI ROBINETTE, JENNIFER WILLIAMS · 2019 to 2021
$726k
Neighborhood adversity and sensitivity to stress: a study of gene x environment interactions.K99AG055699 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ROBINETTE, JENNIFER WILLIAMS · 2017 to 2018
$179k
NIA NIH HHS K99 AG055699NIA NIH HHS R00 AG055699NIH HHS 4R00 AG055699-03NIH HHS K99 AG055699-02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study examined whether perceived neighborhood cohesion (the extent to which neighbors trust and count on one another) buffers against the mental health effects of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

methodsThe XXX University National COVID-19 and Mental Health Study surveyed US adults (N = 3965; M age = 39 years), measuring depressive symptoms, staying home more during than before the 2020 pandemic, and perceived neighborhood cohesion.

resultsA series of linear regressions indicated that perceiving one's neighborhood as more cohesive was not only associated with fewer depressive symptoms, but also attenuated the relationship between spending more time at home during the pandemic and depressive symptoms. These relationships persisted even after taking into account several individual-level sociodemographic characteristics as well as multiple contextual features, i.e., median household income, population density, and racial/ethnic diversity of the zip codes in which participants resided.

conclusionsNeighborhood cohesion may be leveraged to mitigate pandemic impacts on depressive symptoms.

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COVID-19Mental HealthAdultHumansPandemicsResidence CharacteristicsSARS-CoV-2United StatesCOVID-19Depressive symptomsPerceived neighborhood cohesion

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PMID34390977
PMCPMC8417348
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