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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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Bradley, Robert H.; Caldwell, Bettye M. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Examines the relation between the Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME) Inventory and sex, race, socioeconomic status, the amount of crowding in the home, and birth order. Performs multivariate analysis of covariance on an intact family sample using HOME subscales as criterion measures and status and structural variables as…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Black Family, Crowding, Demography