Teacher reports of children's friendships and social groups: Agreement with peer reports and implications for studying peer similarity

Social Development

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 248-259

  Gest, Scott D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Peer influence; Peer similarity; Social networks; Teacher reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645742885     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2006.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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