Accessing Children’s Experiences of Loneliness through Conversations

Field Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-24

  Kirova, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

childhood; interpersonal game; loneliness; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845511644     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X02239572     Document Type: Article

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