Psychology Department, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Department of Sociology, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA; Center for Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2021 Sep;285:114269. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114269. Epub 2021 Aug 5.
This study examined whether perceived neighborhood cohesion (the extent to which neighbors trust and count on one another) buffers against the mental health effects of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
The XXX University National COVID-19 and Mental Health Study surveyed US adults (N = 3965; M age = 39 years), measuring depressive symptoms, staying home more during than before the 2020 pandemic, and perceived neighborhood cohesion.
A series of linear regressions indicated that perceiving one's neighborhood as more cohesive was not only associated with fewer depressive symptoms, but also attenuated the relationship between spending more time at home during the pandemic and depressive symptoms. These relationships persisted even after taking into account several individual-level sociodemographic characteristics as well as multiple contextual features, i.e., median household income, population density, and racial/ethnic diversity of the zip codes in which participants resided.
Neighborhood cohesion may be leveraged to mitigate pandemic impacts on depressive symptoms.
本研究旨在探讨邻里凝聚力（即邻居之间相互信任和依靠的程度）是否能缓冲 2020 年 COVID-19 大流行对心理健康的影响。
XXX 大学全国 COVID-19 和心理健康研究调查了美国成年人（N=3965；M 年龄=39 岁），测量了抑郁症状、与 2020 年大流行前相比在 2020 年大流行期间更多地呆在家里的情况，以及感知到的邻里凝聚力。
一系列线性回归表明，认为自己的邻里更有凝聚力不仅与较少的抑郁症状相关，而且还减轻了在大流行期间更多时间呆在家里与抑郁症状之间的关系。即使考虑到几个个体层面的社会人口特征以及参与者居住的邮政编码的中位数家庭收入、人口密度和种族/族裔多样性等多个环境特征，这些关系仍然存在。
邻里凝聚力可能被利用来减轻大流行对抑郁症状的影响。
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