American adolescents touch each other less and are more aggressive toward their peers as compared with French adolescents

Adolescence

Volumn 34, Issue 136, 1999, Pages 752-758

  Field, Tiffany ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FRANCE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; PEER GROUP; TOUCH; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FLORIDA; HUMANS; PARIS; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL SPACE; TOUCH;

EID: 0033291548     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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