Opposites do not attract: Social status and behavioral-style concordances and discordances among children and the peers who like or dislike them

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 425-434

  Nangle, Douglas W ^a   Erdley, Cynthia A ^a   Zeff, Karen R ^a   Stanchfield, Lora L ^a   Gold, Joel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; dislike; homophily; peer relations; social status

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HOMOPHILY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3042857707     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JACP.0000030295.43586.32     Document Type: Article

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