Friendship Quality as a Predictor of Young Children's Early School Adjustment

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1103-1118

  Ladd, Gary W ^a   Kochenderfer, Becky J ^a   Coleman, Cynthia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONELINESS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030170871     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01785.x     Document Type: Article

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