Children's opinions on effective strategies to cope with bullying: The importance of bullying role and perspective

Educational Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-105

  Camodeca, Marina ^a   Goossens, Frits A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assertiveness; Bully; Nonchalance; Retaliation; Strategy; Victim

Indexed keywords

EID: 15744377109     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188042000337587     Document Type: Article

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