Journal
HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 66, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102442
Keywords
Perceived neighborhoods; Neighborhood stressors; Cognitive health; Adulthood
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Funding
- National Institute on Aging (NIA) [R01 AG046938, AG046938-03S1]
- University of Colorado
- National Institutes of Health [HD010333, HD18426, MH43899, HD036773, DA05131, DA011015, DA046064, DA042755]
- Spencer Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- National Institute of Health (NIH) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) [R01 AG039409, R01 AG042595, P01 AG03949, CTSA 1UL1TR001073]
- Leonard and Sylvia Marx Foundation
- Czap Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network
- National Institute on Aging [P01 AG020166, U19 AG051426]
- NIA [F32 AG056134]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [P2CHD042849]
- William T. Grant Foundation
- [MH063207]
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between perceived neighborhood stressors, encompassing negative perceived neighborhood characteristics, and specific cognitive abilities in adulthood. We conducted a coordinated analysis across three studies of adults in the United States and found that perceived neighborhood stressors were consistently associated with poorer performance on attention-demanding cognitive tasks. We specifically found that perceived neighborhood stressors were associated with lower performance in spatial abilities, working memory, and executive function but not perceptual speed, and that the effect was most consistent for lower perceived neighborhood safety followed by lower perceived aesthetic quality, greater perceived neighborhood crime, and lower perceived neighborhood cohesion. These results highlight the importance of the psychosocial neighborhood context for cognitive health in adulthood.
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