Bullying as a group process: Participant roles and their relations to social status within the group

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Salmivalli, Christina ^a   Lagerspetz, Kirsti ^a   Björkqvist, Kaj ^b   Österman, Karin ^b   Kaukiainen, Ari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Peer relations; Roles; Social acceptance; Social groups; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030526587     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(1996)22:1<1::AID-AB1>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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