Girls, pecking order and smoking

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1861-1869

  Michell, Lynn ^a   Amos, Amanda ^b  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SCOTLAND; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030947517     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00295-X     Document Type: Article

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