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Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood factors (green-blue spaces, services, design and maintenance, traffic, cellphone towers) and social neighborhood factors (neighbor ties, neighbor diversity, social security) that link to mental well-being. A socio-ecological framework is presented to explain interactions among those neighborhood factors, and personal and institutional factors, in relation to mental well-being. The findings are linked to existing concepts and theories to better understand the mechanisms underlying the associations between the urban neighborhood environment and mental well-being. Finally, implications of the walking interview method are discussed.
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood factors (green-blue spaces, services, design and maintenance, traffic, cellphone towers) and social neighborhood factors (neighbor ties, neighbor diversity, social security) that link to mental well-being. A socio-ecological framework is presented to explain interactions among those neighborhood factors, and personal and institutional factors, in relation to mental well-being. The findings are linked to existing concepts and theories to better understand the mechanisms underlying the associations between the urban neighborhood environment and mental well-being. Finally, implications of the walking interview method are discussed.
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Lauwers, Laura (author) / Leone, Michael (author) / Guyot, Madeleine (author) / Pelgrims, Ingrid (author) / Remmen, Roy (author) / Van den Broeck, Kris (author) / Keune, Hans (author) / Bastiaens, Hilde (author) / UCL - SSH/LIDAM/CORE - Center for operations research and econometrics / UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
2021-01-01
doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102497
Health & Place, Vol. 67, p. 102497 (2021)
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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