"It's not what i expected": A qualitative study of youth mentoring relationship failures

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-354

  Spencer, Renée ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Mentoring; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547147861     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558407301915     Document Type: Article

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