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Housing Quality and Children’s Socioemotional Health

Gary W. Evans

College of Human Ecology, Cornell University

Heidi Saltzman

Jefferson Center for Mental Health in Jefferson County, Colorado

Jana L. Cooperman

Montessori school

An observer-based, standardized index of housing quality (structural quality, privacy, indoor climate, hazards, cleanliness/clutter, and children’s resources) is significantly related to psychological distress and a behavioral index of learned helplessness, which reflects an important component of human motivation. Independent of household income, third-through fifth-grade children residing in poorer quality housing have more psychological symptoms and less task persistence than their counterparts living in better quality housing.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 3, 389-399 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/00139160121973043
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