"Guess what I just heard!": Indirect aggression among teenage girls in Australia

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-83

  Owens, Laurence ^a   Shute, Rosalyn ^a   Slee, Phillip ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Focus groups, australia; Indirect aggression; Qualitative research; Teenage girls

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034341829     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(2000)26:1<67::AID-AB6>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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