Children's and adolescents' expectations of aggressive responses to provocation: Females predict more hostile reactions in compatible dyadic relationships

Social Development

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-81

  Benenson, Joyce F ^a   Sinclair, Nancy ^b   Dolenszky, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Relationships; Sex differences; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645124172     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2006.00330.x     Document Type: Review

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