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‘Children growing up in families with expensive homes have fewer emotional and behavioural problems, finds new research led by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) based at the UCL Social Research Institute’
From Sept 2020 this piece of research https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/sep/housing-wealth-matters-childrens-mental-health-0
From Sept 2020 this piece of research https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/sep/housing-wealth-matters-childrens-mental-health-0
It was written up in The Guardian at the time though inexplicably I didn't see it until yesterday https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/17/children-living-in-more-costly-homes-have-fewer-mental-health-problems-study
& also The Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-8741543/Children-expensive-homes-fewer-emotional-behavioural-problems.html
Why might this be? One can only speculate, family structure? bio parents more likely to be married & remain together? access to green-spaces? More resources in general? A combo of the above? The study doesnt really try to explain causality it merely points out the correlation.
Stuff like this prob plays a role Im guessing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351671/
& stuff like this https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2767698
& things like this https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79924-5?fbclid=IwAR1IFM4AgXEdbB7xpnK0RoTVORIZzE9DkJDAVpdSa4NIo-HYTzz2NPZsi5c
Stuff like this is important. I bet wealthier families have greater access to green-spaces than poorer families. Not that Im suggesting that this explains the correlation fully. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00859/full
But it is important & not to be under-estimated as a variable
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2771930?utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetworkopen&utm_content=wklyforyou&utm_term=102320
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2771930?utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetworkopen&utm_content=wklyforyou&utm_term=102320
If the are in which you live can literally contribute to killing you as a child due to air pollution for instance, what do you think its doing to kids in regards to their psychological & emotional well-being? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-55330945
*Pretends to be shocked* https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1234129195418243073?s=20
If you care about the health of young children then you cant afford to ignore stuff like this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32006765/
Not that Im a big environmentalist or anything, Im just saying https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/21/polluted-air-killing-half-a-million-babies-a-year-across-globe
There are ton of studies like this. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/11/5188
There will be lots of variable to explain the better MH outcomes, in general, for kids from richer families but I would be surprised if this isnt one of them - something so simple you might not even consider it important. Well, it is important.
I guess what Im saying is: kids (adults too) need greater access to green-spaces, for lots of different reasons
https://resource.wur.nl/en/show/Less-bullying-in-green-school-playground.htm https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/14/greener-play-areas-boost-childrens-immune-systems-research-finds
https://resource.wur.nl/en/show/Less-bullying-in-green-school-playground.htm https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/14/greener-play-areas-boost-childrens-immune-systems-research-finds
*Pretends to be shocked* https://twitter.com/timrgill/status/1301462920610697218?s=20
Another aspect to this. When you buy a house, espesh an expensive one, prob a higher likelihood that you’re gonna stay there for longer. If people stick round for longer, will that create greater social cohesion? Probably, & will that help? Probably, yes https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/protective-effect-of-neighbourhood-social-cohesion-on-adolescent-mental-health-following-stressful-life-events/65CFACCC585786C0B58DB191E2A17E28
There was a recent 
study that found a link between parental income & risk of Schizophrenia later in life
https://twitter.com/post_liberal/status/1343861679218688000?s=20
And another study that found a link between growing up in urban environments & a higher risk of Schizophrenia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996419304438
study that found a link between parental income & risk of Schizophrenia later in lifehttps://twitter.com/post_liberal/status/1343861679218688000?s=20
And another
study that found a link between growing up in urban environments & a higher risk of Schizophreniahttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996419304438
So urbanicity & poverty can both potentially be negative for one’s mental health, especially as you are growing up & especially if the factors that can contribute to an accumulation of stress in those kinds of environments are not mitigated by other factors.
Air pollution is a mental health issue as it turns out
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/26/air-pollution-linked-to-extremely-high-mortality-in-people-with-mental-disorders
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/30/children-exposed-to-air-pollution-more-likely-to-develop-depression
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/26/air-pollution-linked-to-extremely-high-mortality-in-people-with-mental-disorders
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/30/children-exposed-to-air-pollution-more-likely-to-develop-depression
Living near a busy road can effect a kids academic performance
http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/04/03/jhr.57.3.1218-9903R2
As can being in a noisier environment in general https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1258182275205861381?s=20
http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/04/03/jhr.57.3.1218-9903R2
As can being in a noisier environment in general https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1258182275205861381?s=20
Urban living without sufficient access to green-spaces & the opportunity to safely play outside, add in the stresses of poverty = potentially a combo of factors not very conducive to optimum mental health for children & adolescents.
Here is a thread Ive done before in a similar vein https://twitter.com/post_liberal/status/1343261286646362118?s=20
There is more to children & adolescent mental (ill)health than simply these set of issues ofc. One cannot cover everything in one Twitter thread!
Family dysfunction & family structure are a huge part of the equation too, for instance, but thats a subject matter for a different thread. Its too large a subject this to expect to cover everything in one Twitter thread.
