Assessing children's representations of their peer group using a multidimensional scaling technique

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 707-728

  Lease, A Michele ^a   McFall, Richard M ^b   Treat, Teresa A ^c   Viken, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's peer groups; Multidimensional scaling; Social networks; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346937285     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407503206001     Document Type: Article

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