Assessing elementary school children's social skills: Evaluation of the parent version of the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 140-148

  Bell Dolan, Debora J ^a   Allan, Wesley D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031841628     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.10.2.140     Document Type: Article

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