Links between Social Information Processing in Middle Childhood and Involvement in Bullying

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-127

  Camodeca, Marina ^a,b   Goossens, Frits A ^a   Schuengel, Carlo ^a   Terwogt, Mark Meerum ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b De Bascule   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attribution; Bully; Bully victim; Response decision; Social information processing; Victim

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037253477     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.10043     Document Type: Article

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