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Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health and early mortality. Although many mechanisms may partially account for this effect, disadvantaged neighborhood environments are hypothesized to elicit stress and emotional responses that accumulate over time and influence physic...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31263211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45876-8 |
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author | Hackman, Daniel A. Robert, Stephanie A. Grübel, Jascha Weibel, Raphael P. Anagnostou, Eirini Hölscher, Christoph Schinazi, Victor R. |
author_facet | Hackman, Daniel A. Robert, Stephanie A. Grübel, Jascha Weibel, Raphael P. Anagnostou, Eirini Hölscher, Christoph Schinazi, Victor R. |
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description | Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health and early mortality. Although many mechanisms may partially account for this effect, disadvantaged neighborhood environments are hypothesized to elicit stress and emotional responses that accumulate over time and influence physical and mental health. However, evidence for neighborhood effects on stress and emotion is limited due to methodological challenges. In order to address this question, we developed a virtual reality experimental model of neighborhood disadvantage and affluence and examined the effects of simulated neighborhoods on immediate stress and emotion. Exposure to neighborhood disadvantage resulted in greater negative emotion, less positive emotion, and more compassion, compared to exposure to affluence. However, the effect of virtual neighborhood environments on blood pressure and electrodermal reactivity depended on parental education. Participants from families with lower education exhibited greater reactivity to the disadvantaged neighborhood, while those from families with higher education exhibited greater reactivity to the affluent neighborhood. These results demonstrate that simulated neighborhood environments can elicit immediate stress reactivity and emotion, but the nature of physiological effects depends on sensitization to prior experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-66029552019-07-14 Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity Hackman, Daniel A. Robert, Stephanie A. Grübel, Jascha Weibel, Raphael P. Anagnostou, Eirini Hölscher, Christoph Schinazi, Victor R. Sci Rep Article Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health and early mortality. Although many mechanisms may partially account for this effect, disadvantaged neighborhood environments are hypothesized to elicit stress and emotional responses that accumulate over time and influence physical and mental health. However, evidence for neighborhood effects on stress and emotion is limited due to methodological challenges. In order to address this question, we developed a virtual reality experimental model of neighborhood disadvantage and affluence and examined the effects of simulated neighborhoods on immediate stress and emotion. Exposure to neighborhood disadvantage resulted in greater negative emotion, less positive emotion, and more compassion, compared to exposure to affluence. However, the effect of virtual neighborhood environments on blood pressure and electrodermal reactivity depended on parental education. Participants from families with lower education exhibited greater reactivity to the disadvantaged neighborhood, while those from families with higher education exhibited greater reactivity to the affluent neighborhood. These results demonstrate that simulated neighborhood environments can elicit immediate stress reactivity and emotion, but the nature of physiological effects depends on sensitization to prior experience. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6602955/ /pubmed/31263211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45876-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Hackman, Daniel A. Robert, Stephanie A. Grübel, Jascha Weibel, Raphael P. Anagnostou, Eirini Hölscher, Christoph Schinazi, Victor R. Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
title | Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
title_full | Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
title_fullStr | Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
title_full_unstemmed | Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
title_short | Neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
title_sort | neighborhood environments influence emotion and physiological reactivity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31263211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45876-8 |
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