Notes and shorter communications the contribution of bullying at school and low self-esteem to acts of delinquency among Australian teenagers

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 609-612

  Rigby, Ken ^a   Cox, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030268671     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00105-5     Document Type: Article

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