Office of Population Research, Princeton University, NJ, USA.
Health Place. 2012 Mar;18(2):180-90. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.09.002. Epub 2011 Sep 16.
This paper examines the relationship between neighborhood disorder and anxiety symptoms. It draws on data from the Monitoring Mt. Laurel Study, a new survey-based study that enables us to compare residents living in an affordable housing project in a middle-class New Jersey suburb to a comparable group of non-residents. Using these new data, we test the hypothesis that living in an affordable housing project in a middle class suburb reduces a poor person's exposure to disorder and violence compared to what they would have experienced in the absence of access to such housing, and that this lesser exposure to disorder and violence yields improvements in anxiety that can be attributed to residents' reduced stress burden. We find that residents of the project are less likely to be exposed to disorder and violence and have lower stress levels and slightly fewer anxiety symptoms. Differences in exposure to disorder explain differences in stress burden, and, hence, anxiety symptoms between the two groups.
本文探讨了邻里混乱与焦虑症状之间的关系。它借鉴了“监测莫尔劳尔研究”的数据，这是一项新的基于调查的研究，使我们能够将居住在新泽西州中产阶级郊区经济适用房项目中的居民与一组可比的非居民进行比较。利用这些新数据，我们检验了这样一个假设，即与没有获得这种住房的情况下相比，生活在中产阶级郊区的经济适用房项目中减少了穷人接触混乱和暴力的机会，而且这种接触混乱和暴力的机会减少会减轻居民的压力负担，从而改善焦虑症状。我们发现，该项目的居民不太可能接触到混乱和暴力，压力水平较低，焦虑症状也略少。接触混乱的差异解释了两组之间的压力负担差异，进而解释了焦虑症状的差异。
