Mental health effects of perceived living environment and neighborhood safety in urbanizing China
Mental health effects of perceived living environment and neighborhood safety in urbanizing China
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DOI：
10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.11.002
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Chen, Shuo
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作者：
Chen, Juan;Chen, Shuo
近30年来，中国快速的人口迁移和城市化进程导致城市邻里结构和特征发生了重大变化，这对个体的心理健康状况产生了严重影响。利用2011年中国全国城市调查的数据，我们研究了感知生活环境和邻里安全与城市居民、农村到城市的移民以及首次经历过原位城市化的城市化农村居民的CES-D抑郁的关系。与我们的假设相反，在控制了个人和家庭特征、县级和地级市社会经济和安全措施以及省级固定效应之后，农民工和就地城市化的农村居民对其居住环境和邻里安全的负面感受并不比城市居民更强烈。城市居民感知居住环境和邻里安全与心理健康的关系最为显著；无论是从农村到城市的移民还是城市化的农村居民，都没有发现显著的心理健康影响。由于农村城市化的速度超过了人口城市化的速度，这个世界上人口最多的国家史无前例的城市化对心理健康的潜在风险需要进一步的实践和政策关注。(C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
In the past three decades, the rapid migration and urbanization process in China has led to significant changes in urban neighborhood composition and characteristics, which have serious implications for individuals' mental health status. Using data from a 2011 national survey of urban China, we examine the associations of perceived living environment and neighborhood safety with CES-D depressive distress among urban residents, rural-to-urban migrants, and, for the first time, urbanized rural residents who have experienced in-situ urbanization. Contrary to our hypotheses, rural-to-urban migrants and in-situ urbanized rural residents do not perceive their living environment and neighborhood safety more negatively than urban residents after controlling for individual and household characteristics, county-level and prefectural socio-economic and safety measures, and provincial fixed effects. Moreover, the associations of perceived living environment and neighborhood safety with mental health are the most prominent among urban residents; no significant mental health effects are found for either rural-to-urban migrants or urbanized rural residents. As the urbanization of the countryside is outstripping the urbanization of people, the potential risks of this unprecedented urbanization of the world's most populous nation on mental health require further practice and policy attention. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.