Gender-Differentiated Experience in the Peer Culture: Links to Intimacy in Preadolescence

Social Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 62-79

  Zarbatany, Lynne ^a   McDougall, Patricia ^b   Hymel, Shelley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Friendship; Intimacy; Peer culture; Preadolescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346819942     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00111     Document Type: Article

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