Based on the research, women would be excellent candidates. Role of control and social support in explaining the stress of hassles and crowding. Social stressors such as arguements are minor but they diminish psychological well-being. Household crowding has been related to social pathology. Joint effect of crowding and social hassles is greater than the sum of each separately.
Social hassles lead to psychological distress only among people experiencing residential crowding.
Crowding has been in the past related to diminished perceived control. If control is the important variables, then if it is statistically partialled out, the effects of crowding and hassles should disappear. Procedure Students who were living in off-campus apartments were recruited. Only one person per apartment participated. Distress at 2 weeks entered first, initial level of density entered next, followed by social hassles at 8 months, then cross product of social hassles and crowding.