Children's Peer Selection: Experimental Examination of the Role of Self-Perceptions

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 495-508

  Cassidy, Jude ^a   Aikins, Julie Wargo ^b   Chernoff, Jodi Jacobson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0141753141     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.3.495     Document Type: Article

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