Nighttime lights, urban features, household poverty, depression, and obesity

Nighttime Light Emission (NLE) is associated with diminished mental and physical health. The present study examines how NLE and associated urban features (e.g., air pollution, low green space) impact mental and physical wellbeing. We included 200,393 UK Biobank Cohort participants with complete data...

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Published in:Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) N.J.), 2023-06, Vol.42 (18), p.15453-15464
Main Authors: Liao, Yi-An, Garcia-Mondragon, Liliana, Konac, Deniz, Liu, Xiaoxuan, Ing, Alex, Goldblatt, Ran, Yu, Le, Barker, Edward D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Depression, Mental
Economic aspects
Electric lighting
Environmental aspects
Health aspects
Households
Lighting
Mental depression
Metropolitan areas
Obesity
Poverty
Psychological aspects
Psychology
Social aspects
Social Sciences
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Summary:Nighttime Light Emission (NLE) is associated with diminished mental and physical health. The present study examines how NLE and associated urban features (e.g., air pollution, low green space) impact mental and physical wellbeing. We included 200,393 UK Biobank Cohort participants with complete data. The study was carried out in two steps. In Step1, we assessed the relationship between NLE, deprivation, pollution, green space, household poverty and mental and physical symptoms. In Step2, we examined the role of NLE on environment-symptom networks. We stratified participants into high and low NLE and used gaussian graphical model to identify nodes which bridged urban features and mental and physical health problems. We then compared the global strength of these networks in high vs low NLE. We found that higher NLE associated with higher air pollution, less green space, higher economic and neighborhood deprivation, higher household poverty and higher depressed mood, higher tiredness/lethargy and obesity (R training_mean  = 0.2624, P training_mean  
ISSN:1046-1310
1936-4733
DOI:10.1007/s12144-022-02754-3