Cumulative Effects of Neighborhood Social Adversity and Personal Crime Victimization on Adolescent Psychotic Experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the impact of urbanicity, adverse neighborhood conditions and violent crime victimization on the emergence of adolescent psychotic experiences.

Methods

Participants were from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative cohort of 2232 British twins who were interviewed about adolescent psychotic experiences at age 18. Urbanicity, neighborhood characteristics, and personal victimization by violent crime were measured during childhood and adolescence via geocoded census data, surveys of over 5000 immediate neighbors of the E-Risk participants, and interviews with participants themselves.

Results

Adolescents raised in urban vs rural neighborhoods were significantly more likely to have psychotic expe

SUBMITTER: Newbury J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815129 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature