Question

What are the salient features of crowding? Explain the major psychological consequences
of crowding.

Answer 1

Answer:

Crowding: It is psychological crampedness. It manifests following features:

(a) Feeling of discomfort because of too many people or things around us the experience of physical restriction and sometimes the lack of privacy.

(b) Crowding is the person’s reaction to the presence of a large number of persons within a particular area or space. Features of Crowding; Crowding has the following features: — Crowding gives feeling of discomfort. — It gives a feeling that individual privacy is being threatened

— It gives feeling that individual’s personal space is being invaded. — It gives negative view of a space around the person. —

Crowding develops feelings of loss of control over social interaction.

Crowding is studied by various psychologists in India and abroad.

Crowding is not always experienced in high density setting nor all people experience its negative major-psychological-consequences-crowding