Childhood play and adolescent leisure preferences: Associations with gender typing and the presence of siblings

Sex Roles

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 233-245

  Colley, Ann ^a   Griffiths, Deborah ^b   Hugh, Michelle ^b   Landers, Kirsten ^b   Jaggli, Nicole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030490909     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01433109     Document Type: Article

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