Longitudinal associations between neighborhood safety and adolescent adjustment: The moderating role of affective neural sensitivity

Tianying Cai; Beiming Yang; Zexi Zhou; Ka I. Ip; Emma K. Adam; Claudia M. Haase; Yang Qu

doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101380

Longitudinal associations between neighborhood safety and adolescent adjustment: The moderating role of affective neural sensitivity

Tianying Cai^*, Beiming Yang, Zexi Zhou, Ka I. Ip, Emma K. Adam, Claudia M. Haase, Yang Qu^*

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School of Education and Social Policy

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Abstract

Research on social determinants of health has highlighted the influence of neighborhood characteristics (e.g., neighborhood safety) on adolescents’ health. However, it is less clear how changes in neighborhood environments play a role in adolescent development, and who are more sensitive to such changes. Utilizing the first three waves of data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) project (N = 7932, M (SD) _age = 9.93 (.63) years at T1; 51% boys), the present study found that increases in neighborhood safety were associated with decreased adolescent externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, but not sleep disturbance over time, controlling for baseline neighborhood safety. Further, adolescents’ insula and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) reactivity to positive emotional stimuli moderated the association between changes in neighborhood safety and adolescent adjustment. Among youth who showed higher, but not lower, insula and ACC reactivity to positive emotion, increases in neighborhood safety were linked with better adjustment. The current study contributes to the differential susceptibility literature by identifying affective neural sensitivity as a marker of youth's susceptibility to changes in neighborhood environment. The findings highlight the importance of neighborhood safety for youth during the transition to adolescence, particularly for those with heightened affective neural sensitivity.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	101380
Journal	Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Volume	67
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101380
State	Published - Jun 2024

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Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development SM (ABCD) Study ( https://abcdstudy.org ), held in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA). This is a multisite, longitudinal study designed to recruit more than 10,000 children age 9-10 and follow them over 10 years into early adulthood. The ABCD Study\u00AE is supported by the National Institutes of Health and additional federal partners under award numbers U01DA041048, U01DA050989, U01DA051016, U01DA041022, U01DA051018, U01DA051037, U01DA050987, U01DA041174, U01DA041106, U01DA041117, U01DA041028, U01DA041134, U01DA050988, U01DA051039, U01DA041156, U01DA041025, U01DA041120, U01DA051038, U01DA041148, U01DA041093, U01DA041089, U24DA041123, U24DA041147. A full list of supporters is available at https://abcdstudy.org/federal-partners.html . A listing of participating sites and a complete listing of the study investigators can be found at https://abcdstudy.org/consortium_members/ . ABCD consortium investigators designed and implemented the study and/or provided data but did not necessarily participate in the analysis or writing of this report. This manuscript reflects the views of the authors and may not reflect the opinions or views of the NIH or ABCD consortium investigators. The ABCD data repository grows and changes over time. The ABCD data used in this report came from http://dx.doi.org/10.15154/1523041 . This research is supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1944644) and research fund from the Center for Culture, Brain, Biology, and Learning at Northwestern University. Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM (ABCD) Study (https://abcdstudy.org), held in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA). This is a multisite, longitudinal study designed to recruit more than 10,000 children age 9\u201310 and follow them over 10 years into early adulthood. The ABCD Study\u00AE is supported by the National Institutes of Health and additional federal partners under award numbers U01DA041048, U01DA050989, U01DA051016, U01DA041022, U01DA051018, U01DA051037, U01DA050987, U01DA041174, U01DA041106, U01DA041117, U01DA041028, U01DA041134, U01DA050988, U01DA051039, U01DA041156, U01DA041025, U01DA041120, U01DA051038, U01DA041148, U01DA041093, U01DA041089, U24DA041123, U24DA041147. A full list of supporters is available at https://abcdstudy.org/federal-partners.html. A listing of participating sites and a complete listing of the study investigators can be found at https://abcdstudy.org/consortium_members/. ABCD consortium investigators designed and implemented the study and/or provided data but did not necessarily participate in the analysis or writing of this report. This manuscript reflects the views of the authors and may not reflect the opinions or views of the NIH or ABCD consortium investigators. The ABCD data repository grows and changes over time. The ABCD data used in this report came from http://dx.doi.org/10.15154/1523041. This research is supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1944644) and research fund from the Center for Culture, Brain, Biology, and Learning at Northwestern University.

Keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex
Differential susceptibility
Insula
Mental health
Neighborhood safety
Sleep

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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