'What about bullying?' An experimental field study to understand students' attitudes towards bullying and victimisation in Italian middle schools

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 583-598

  Baldry, Anna C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; VICTIM;

AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 10244255220     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/0007099042376391     Document Type: Article

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