Children's emergent leadership: The relationships with group charecteristics and outcomes

Small Group Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 388-406

  Yamaguchi, Ryoko ^a,c   Maehr, Martin L ^b  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement motivation; Emergent leadership; Group cohesion; Group regulation; Learning groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342939219     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496404263272     Document Type: Review

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