The Effects of Air Pollution on Individual Psychological Distress

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Abstract

This study utilizes a longitudinal individual-level data set combined with neighborhood level measures of air pollution to better understand the relationship between air pollution and psychological distress. We only find support for a positive association between air pollution and psychological distress with one of the three air pollution types tested. Additionally, the relationship between age and psychological distress was the opposite of what we expected.

Authors

• Victoria Sass, University of Washington

• Steven Michael Karceski, University of Washington