Enhancing Children's Responsibility to Take Action Against Bullying: Evaluation of a Befriending Intervention in Italian Middle Schools

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-14

  Menesini, Ersilia ^a,d   Codecasa, Elena ^a   Benelli, Beatrice ^b   Cowie, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d Dipartimento di Psicologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anti bullying intervention; Friendship; Peer support; School aged children; Victimisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037259989     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.80012     Document Type: Article

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