Motives as predictors of argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness of black and white adolescents

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-126

  Anderson, Carolyn M ^a   Raptis, Paul R ^a   Lin, Yang ^a   Clark, Fendrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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EID: 34548086664     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090009388758     Document Type: Article

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