Search Strategy Urban Neighborhood Characteristics, Mental Wellbeing and Young Adults (PsycInfo (Ovid), Medline (Ovid), Scopus, SocINDEX (EBSCO))

The file with the full search strategy includes PsycInfo (Ovid), Medline (Ovid), Scopus, SocINDEX (EBSCO)Date exported: 27 March 2026.PsycInfo (Ovid, APA PsycInfo, 1806 to March 2026 Week 4)1. built environment/ OR public space/ OR environmental planning/ OR urban planning/ OR gentrification/ OR (built environment* OR cohesion OR cohesiveness OR environmental planning OR green space OR housing density OR living environment* OR neighbo?r* interaction* OR population density OR public space* OR residential area* OR street cleanliness OR urban area* OR urban design OR urban planning OR urban structure OR urbanicity OR ((community OR environment* OR local OR neighbo?rhood* OR public OR urban*) ADJ3 (advantage* OR attribute* OR better OR characteristic* OR circumstance* OR component* OR condition* OR contact OR context* OR crime OR crowded* OR density OR depriv* OR deterioration OR disadvantage* OR discrimination OR disorder OR effect* OR element* OR employment rate OR exposure* OR facilities OR factor* OR fragmentation OR gentrification OR green OR improv* OR instability OR involvement OR nuisance OR processes OR quality OR safety OR SES OR setting* OR socioeconomic status OR stability OR surroundings OR turnover)) OR ((community OR local OR neighbo?rhood* OR public OR urban*) ADJ3 environment*) OR ((mobility OR move* OR moving OR relocat*) ADJ4 (area* OR census tract* OR city center* OR city centre* OR community OR downward OR neighbo?r* OR postal code* OR postcode area* OR rural OR upward OR urban OR zip code*)) OR ((area* OR community OR move* OR moving OR neighbo?r*) ADJ4 (advantag* OR affluent OR better OR change* OR deprivation OR deprived OR deteriorated OR disadvantag* OR favo?rable OR high* income OR high* poverty OR high-opportunity OR improved OR less poor OR low* income OR low* poverty OR low-opportunity OR poorer OR unfavo?rable OR worse*))).ti,ab,id.2. emotional health/ OR emotional well being/ OR life satisfaction/ OR quality of life/ OR subjective well being/ OR happiness/ OR socioemotional functioning/ OR self-acceptance/ OR positive emotions/ OR negative emotions/ OR "resilience (psychological)"/ OR self-esteem/ OR self-worth/ OR (((mental OR subjective OR emotional OR psychological OR psychosocial OR psycho-social OR behavio*ral OR hedonic OR eudaimonic) ADJ7 (wellbeing OR well being OR wellness OR functioning)) OR ((emotional OR psychosocial OR psycho-social OR hedonic OR eudaimonic OR socioemotional) ADJ1 health) OR self-acceptance OR self acceptance OR life satisfaction OR satisfaction with life OR positive mental health OR PMH OR PWB OR quality of life OR QoL OR happiness OR positive affect OR (negative affect ADJ7 (wellbeing or well-being)) OR positive emotion* OR resilien* OR self-esteem OR self-worth OR self-efficacy OR coping OR RSE* OR rosenberg self-esteem OR (warw* ADJ2 edinb* ADJ2 well*) OR WEMWBS OR SWEMWBS OR ((world health organization OR WHO) ADJ3 (well-being OR wellbeing)) OR flourishing scale* OR PERMA-profiler OR BBC-SWB OR (BBC ADJ3 (wellbeing OR well-being)) OR wellbeing scale* OR well-being scale* OR inventory of thriving OR oxford happiness OR SWLS OR MHC OR "strength* and difficult* questionnaire*" OR SDQ OR ((flourishing OR thriving) ADJ7 mental) OR mental health OR ((emotion* OR behavio*) ADJ problem*)).ti,ab,id,tm.3. (longitudinal study OR followup study OR prospective study OR retrospective study).md. OR longitudinal studies/ OR followup studies/ OR retrospective studies/ OR prospective studies/ OR cohort analysis/ OR (longitud* OR prospectiv* OR long term OR follow-up OR followup OR cohort* OR retrospective* OR wave? OR residential histories OR record linkage).ti,ab,id.4. (adolescence 13 17 yrs OR young adulthood 18 29 yrs).ag. OR (adolesc* OR youth OR emerging adult* OR young adult* OR young people OR young men OR young wom*n OR early adult* OR ((age OR aged OR ages OR years OR year OR yo) ADJ3 ("15" OR "16" OR "17" OR "18" OR "19" OR "20" OR "21" OR "22" OR "23" OR "24" OR fifteen OR sixteen OR seventeen OR eighteen OR eighteen OR nineteen OR twenty OR twenty-one OR twenty-two OR twenty-three OR twenty-four))).ti,ab,id.5. neighborhoods/ OR public space/ OR environmental planning/ OR urban environments/ OR urban planning/ OR (neighbo?rhood* OR urban OR residential area* OR living environment* OR built environment* OR environmental planning OR public space*).ti,ab,id.6. 1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4 AND 5Key: / = subject heading, ti = title, ab = abstract, id = key concepts (other keywords added by PsycInfo indexers to supplement the subject headings), ag = age group, md = methodology, tm = tests & measures, ADJn = word distance of maximum n words (in any order), * = unlimited number of characters, ? = 0-1 number of characters