Children's friends and behavioral similarity in two social contexts

Social Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 224-236

  Poulin, François ^a   Cillessen, Antonius H N ^b   Hubbard, Julie A ^b   Coie, John D ^b   Dodge, Kenneth A ^b   Schwartz, David ^b  

^a OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aggression; Friendship; Play groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031469828     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.1997.tb00103.x     Document Type: Article

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