TY - JOUR
T1 - Crowding and cognitive development
T2 - The mediating role of maternal responsiveness among 36-month-old children
AU - Evans, Gary W.
AU - Ricciuti, Henry N.
AU - Hope, Steven
AU - Schoon, Ingrid
AU - Bradley, Robert
AU - Corwyn, Robert F.
AU - Hazan, Cindy
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - 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. Statistical controls for income, child gender, maternal age, and maternal education are incorporated throughout. In both samples the association between crowding and cognitive development are mediated by maternal responsiveness. Mothers in more crowded homes are less responsive to their children.
AB - 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. Statistical controls for income, child gender, maternal age, and maternal education are incorporated throughout. In both samples the association between crowding and cognitive development are mediated by maternal responsiveness. Mothers in more crowded homes are less responsive to their children.
KW - Children
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Crowding
KW - Parental responsiveness
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U2 - 10.1177/0013916509333509
DO - 10.1177/0013916509333509
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70450250089
SN - 0013-9165
VL - 42
SP - 135
EP - 148
JO - Environment and Behavior
JF - Environment and Behavior
IS - 1
ER -