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Main environmental factors affecting mental health - Coggle Diagram
Main environmental factors affecting mental health
Physical factor
Environmental pollution
Growing up around ‘dirty air’ quadruples a child’s chance of developing depression later in life
polluted areas typically combine more of the factors on this list than just air pollution
Sleep deprivation.
Sleep deprivation or an unhealthy sleep cycle is known to be bad for your mental health.
Noisy neighbours, a loud road nearby, nights which are too hot or too cold, creaky architecture
Hazardous working conditions
‘Hazardous’ can refer not just to physical danger where work is concerned
It refers to any working condition which can put significant strain on body and/or mind
If your work environment is stressful, your mental health can suffer.
Extreme weather conditions
Bad or extreme weather is stressful and it can wear your down
If you’re perpetually cold, sweltering, battling against snow, struggling over ice, or drenched to the skin every time you step outside, your mental health will experience a toll
Smoking
Both passive and active smoking are very bad for your mental health.
Inaccessible architecture
Being unable to move easily around your environment is very frustrating.
If you’re excluded from certain areas or activities, the frustration and isolation of this can contribute to mental illness.
Home Environment
Family economy
education levels of parents
financial conditions
history of illness have an impact on a child’s mental health and its subsequent behavioral tendencies.
Parenting
This sub-theme suggests that various issues related to parenting can have adverse effects on children and adolescents’ mental health, as discussed in the following sections.
Parental Involvement.
the higher the involvement of parents in a child’s functioning, the better their mental health
Parental involvement may boost and encourage the morale of children, hence motivating a child’s independence
Temperamental issues, shyness, negative affection of parents, and decreased encouragement of a child’s independence are factors that may cause anxiety disorders in children
Logistic regression reveals parental involvement linked to lower child mental health.
Parental Expectations
Expectations of parents from their children impact their
mental health, even though the external environment
Research has claimed a negative correlation between parental expectations and externalizing symptoms
a child will have higher externalizing symptoms like temper issues, excessive verbal aggression, physical aggression, when there are low expectations from his/her parents.
Social factors
Stigma
Experiencing stigma such as racism, sexism, homophobia, or other, significantly increases a person's risk of mental illness.
Discord.
Strife and violence in the home or the community is a big cause of anxiety, stress, depression, and even conditions like PTSD.
abuse
physical, sexual, or emotional – can encompass anything from domestic violence to bullying within the community to catcalling.
Experiencing this regularly within your environment can be very bad for you.
poverty
overty attacks mental health from a great many angles. It can restrict access to the kind of nutritious diet which benefits mental health.
Lack of social support
Humans are social animals, designed to rely on one another.
Feeling ostracised, or alone, or otherwise unsupported within your community has a major impact upon mental health.
Toxic relationships
Toxic relationships can lower self-esteem, increase irritability, cause anxiety, contribute to depression, and even foster conditions like PTSD.
Digital Environment
Increased screen time before bed generates sleep discrepancies, depressive symptoms, and isolation.
Type and frequency of harassment determine the impact on the psychological states of
children.
Boys are major victims of physical and psychological violence. Girls are major victims of sexual abuse.
Victims of bullying experience psychological (anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts) and physical symptoms (headache)
Victims of bullying experience psychological (anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts) and physical symptoms (headache and stomach pain).
Other factors
Lack of access to green spaces
Access to green or naturally beautiful spaces has a massively positive impact upon mental health.
Lack of visual stimulation.
. People often describe certain urban environments as ‘bland’ or ‘dull’. It’s noticeable that people perk up to the extent that their moods visibly lift when they enter more interesting
‘Oppressive’ untidiness.
Untidiness makes us anxious on an instinctive and on a personal level. Instinctively, we are programmed to have a degree of anxiety about mess due to the health hazard it may present
people in messy environments may become anxious about what others may think of their living conditions, the time it will take to clean up, and so on.
Physical Environment
mental health problems in children but may not affect depressive symptoms
positive relationship between lower socioeconomic neighborhoods and increased mental health problems among children
Family income, maternal education levels & functioning,
organizational participation, and collective efficacy seemed to have a moderating effect on this assumed causal relationship between mental health and neighborhood characteristics.