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Evans, Gary W.; Ricciuti, Henry N.; Hope, Steven; Schoon, Ingrid; Bradley, Robert H.; Corwyn, Robert F.; Hazan, Cindy – Environment and Behavior, 2010
Residential crowding in both U.S. and U.K. samples of 36-month-old children is related concurrently to the Bracken scale, a standard index of early cognitive development skills including letter and color identification, shape recognition, and elementary numeric comprehension. In the U.S. sample, these effects also replicate prospectively.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Crowding, Cognitive Development, Child Development
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Evans, Gary W.; Hart, Betty; Maxwell, Lorraine E. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined association between residential density and parent/child speech in toddlers and parents participating in the University of Kansas Language Acquisition Project. Found that parents in crowded homes spoke with children in less complex, sophisticated ways than parents in uncrowded homes. The association was mediated by parental…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Crowding, Family Environment, Infants
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Evans, Gary W.; Lepore, Stephen J.; Shejwal, B. R.; Palsane, M. N. – Child Development, 1998
Examined the connection between chronic residential crowding and student adjustment, academic achievement, vulnerability to learned helplessness, blood pressure, and parent-child relationship in 10- to 12-year olds in urban India. Found that crowding was positively associated with blood pressure only among boys, and with learned helplessness only…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Behavior, Children, Crowding