Midouhas Emily, Platt Lucinda
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, 25 Woburn Square, WC1H 0AA, UK.
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, Old Building, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, UK.
Health Place. 2014 Nov;30:226-33. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.09.003. Epub 2014 Oct 17.
Despite extensive studies of neighborhood effects on children׳s outcomes, there is little evidence on rural-urban impacts on child mental health. We modeled trajectories of emotional-behavioral problems of white majority children at ages 3, 5, and 7 in England in areas with varying levels of rural and urban settlement, using the Millennium Cohort Study. After adjusting for area selection, children in less sparse rural areas had fewer conduct and peer problems, and children in areas with a mix of rural and urban settlement had fewer emotional symptoms, explained by the quality of their schools. Area differences remained in emotional problems.
尽管对邻里环境对儿童成长结果的影响进行了广泛研究，但关于城乡环境对儿童心理健康的影响却几乎没有证据。我们利用千禧队列研究，对英格兰农村和城市定居程度不同地区的白人多数儿童在3岁、5岁和7岁时的情绪行为问题轨迹进行了建模。在对区域选择进行调整后，人口密度较低的农村地区的儿童行为和同伴问题较少，而城乡混合定居地区的儿童情绪症状较少，这可以用他们学校的质量来解释。在情绪问题方面，地区差异仍然存在。
