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Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 June 2023) | Viewed by 7078

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Keri K. Wong

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Department of Psychology and Human Development, University College London, London WC1H 0AL, UK
Interests: schizophrenia-spectrum disorders; paranoia; antisocial behaviour; mental health; biopsychosocial; developmental psychopathology
Dr. Marta Francesconi

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Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, London WC1H 0AL, UK
Interests: clinical psychology; inflammation; internalising and externalising; environmental psychology; early intervention
Dr. Efstathios Papachristou

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Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, London WC1H 0AL, UK
Interests: life course epidemiology; biological psychology; affective disorders; quantitative psychology; developmental psychology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is currently running a special issue entitled “Environmental Influences on the Psychological Wellbeing of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults.”  We kindly invite full paper submissions for consideration in this special issue.

The impact of physical built environment on physical health is well-established, though little research has focused on its role in mental wellbeing. In particular, studies of children, adolescents, and young people in the community and the impacts of built environment on their health are not often studied. Developmentally, this area of research is important in informing public health policy when designing healthy indoor and outdoor built environments for youths to maximise their psychological health outcomes. This special issue invites high quality contributions from researchers examining a broad range of physical and virtual built environment and the associated psychological wellbeing indicators. Examples of environment include physical environments, neighbourhood characteristics, air pollution, noise, green space, blue space, virtual space, urbanicity, transportation system, built environment, indoor and outdoor, household.

Dr. Keri K. Wong
Dr. Marta Francesconi
Dr. Efstathios Papachristou
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • physical environments
  • neighbourhood characteristics
  • air pollution
  • noise
  • green and blue space
  • urbanicity
  • built environment
  • indoor, outdoor, and virtual space
  • household environment
  • mental health

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Health Implications of Virtual Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Transferability of Findings from Neuroarchitecture
by Cleo Valentine
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2735; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032735 - 3 Feb 2023
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Virtual architecture has been increasingly relied on to evaluate the health impacts of physical architecture. In this health research, exposure to virtual architecture has been used as a proxy for exposure to physical architecture. Despite the growing body of research on the health [...] Read more.
Virtual architecture has been increasingly relied on to evaluate the health impacts of physical architecture. In this health research, exposure to virtual architecture has been used as a proxy for exposure to physical architecture. Despite the growing body of research on the health implications of physical architecture, there is a paucity of research examining the long-term health impacts of prolonged exposure to virtual architecture. In response, this paper considers: what can proxy studies, which use virtual architecture to assess the physiological response to physical architecture, tell us about the impact of extended exposure to virtual architecture on human health? The paper goes on to suggest that the applicability of these findings to virtual architecture may be limited by certain confounding variables when virtual architecture is experienced for a prolonged period of time. This paper explores the potential impact of two of these confounding variables: multisensory integration and gravitational perception. This paper advises that these confounding variables are unique to extended virtual architecture exposure and may not be captured by proxy studies that aim to capture the impact of physical architecture on human health through acute exposure to virtual architecture. While proxy studies may be suitable for measuring some aspects of the impact of both physical and virtual architecture on human health, this paper argues that they may be insufficient to fully capture the unintended consequences of extended exposure to virtual architecture on human health. Therefore, in the face of the increasing use of virtual architectural environments, the author calls for the establishment of a subfield of neuroarchitectural health research that empirically examines the physiological impacts of extended exposure to virtual architecture in its own right. Full article
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Neighborhood Physical and Social Environments and Social Inequalities in Health in Older Adolescents and Young Adults: A Scoping Review
by Martine Shareck, Eliana Aubé and Stephanie Sersli
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(8), 5474; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085474 - 11 Apr 2023
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Poor health and well-being are prevalent among young people. Neighborhoods may play a role in promoting good health. Little is known on if and how neighborhood characteristics affect health, and social inequalities therein, among young people. In this scoping review, we asked: (1) [...] Read more.
Poor health and well-being are prevalent among young people. Neighborhoods may play a role in promoting good health. Little is known on if and how neighborhood characteristics affect health, and social inequalities therein, among young people. In this scoping review, we asked: (1) what features of the neighborhood physical and social environments have been studied in association with the physical and mental health and well-being of young people 15 to 30 years old; and (2) to what extent have social differentials in these associations been studied, and how? We identified peer-reviewed articles (2000 to 2023) through database and snowball searches. We summarized study characteristics, exposure(s), outcome(s) and main findings, with an eye on social inequalities in health. Out of the 69 articles reviewed, most were quantitative, cross-sectional, conducted among 18-year-olds and younger, and focused on the residential neighborhood. Neighborhood social capital and mental health were the most common exposure and outcome studied, respectively. Almost half of the studies examined social inequalities in health, mostly across sex/gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity. Evidence gaps remain, which include exploring settings other than residential neighborhoods, studying the older age stratum of young adulthood, and assessing a broader range of social inequalities. Addressing these gaps can support research and action on designing healthy and equitable neighborhoods for young people. Full article
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