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The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have been associated with adolescent well-being, but the majority of studies were cross-sectional, and the time window over which the neighbourhood may impact on development is unknown. Therefore, the contribution of the neighbo...

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Autores principales: Drukker, Marjan, Kaplan, Charles, Schneiders, Josien, Feron, Frans JM, van Os, Jim
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1513203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16707015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-133
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author Drukker, Marjan
Kaplan, Charles
Schneiders, Josien
Feron, Frans JM
van Os, Jim
author_facet Drukker, Marjan
Kaplan, Charles
Schneiders, Josien
Feron, Frans JM
van Os, Jim
author_sort Drukker, Marjan
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description BACKGROUND: Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have been associated with adolescent well-being, but the majority of studies were cross-sectional, and the time window over which the neighbourhood may impact on development is unknown. Therefore, the contribution of the neighbourhood environment to adolescents' quality of life and the course of these effects during the period of transition from childhood to early adolescence was examined. METHODS: A cohort of adolescents living in Maastricht (The Netherlands), with a mean age of 11.2 years at baseline and of 13.5 years at follow-up was followed. Adolescents who responded both at baseline and at follow-up were included in the analysis (n = 475). Multilevel regression analyses estimated neighbourhood effects while controlling for individual-level effects. Neighbourhood-level socioeconomic and social capital variables, individual-level confounders, and baseline values of the outcome measures were included in the models. RESULTS: None of the neighbourhood factors was associated with changes in general health or mental health over the two-year period. However, two-year exposure to greater disparity between individual level socioeconomic status on the one hand and neighbourhood level of socioeconomic status on the other (e.g. high socioeconomic status adolescents living in deprived neighbourhoods and vice versa) negatively impacted on self-esteem and satisfaction. CONCLUSION: The neighbourhood environment per se does not contribute to change in quality of life during the transition to early adolescence. However, adolescents living in families whose socioeconomic status deviates from the mean level of neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation may be negatively affected.
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spelling pubmed-15132032006-07-20 The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study Drukker, Marjan Kaplan, Charles Schneiders, Josien Feron, Frans JM van Os, Jim BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have been associated with adolescent well-being, but the majority of studies were cross-sectional, and the time window over which the neighbourhood may impact on development is unknown. Therefore, the contribution of the neighbourhood environment to adolescents' quality of life and the course of these effects during the period of transition from childhood to early adolescence was examined. METHODS: A cohort of adolescents living in Maastricht (The Netherlands), with a mean age of 11.2 years at baseline and of 13.5 years at follow-up was followed. Adolescents who responded both at baseline and at follow-up were included in the analysis (n = 475). Multilevel regression analyses estimated neighbourhood effects while controlling for individual-level effects. Neighbourhood-level socioeconomic and social capital variables, individual-level confounders, and baseline values of the outcome measures were included in the models. RESULTS: None of the neighbourhood factors was associated with changes in general health or mental health over the two-year period. However, two-year exposure to greater disparity between individual level socioeconomic status on the one hand and neighbourhood level of socioeconomic status on the other (e.g. high socioeconomic status adolescents living in deprived neighbourhoods and vice versa) negatively impacted on self-esteem and satisfaction. CONCLUSION: The neighbourhood environment per se does not contribute to change in quality of life during the transition to early adolescence. However, adolescents living in families whose socioeconomic status deviates from the mean level of neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation may be negatively affected. BioMed Central 2006-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC1513203/ /pubmed/16707015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-133 Text en Copyright © 2006 Drukker et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Drukker, Marjan
Kaplan, Charles
Schneiders, Josien
Feron, Frans JM
van Os, Jim
The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
title The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
title_full The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
title_fullStr The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
title_full_unstemmed The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
title_short The wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
title_sort wider social environment and changes in self-reported quality of life in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence: a cohort study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1513203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16707015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-133
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