Abstract: The exposure to crowding in everyday life leads to stress, frustration, anger and reduced coping abilities. The demands of living and working expose people to different situations irrespective of individual differences. Crowding is a personal, perceived state of mind that may occur owing to environmental realities i.e., high population density (Baron and Richardson, 2004). Crowding refers to the feeling of others being too close versus them actually being too close (Stenstrom, 2010). There are variations in these terms; and, as a matter of fact crowding is subjective and density objective. Researchers place confusion on the two when they do not differentiate them from one another..............
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