Social support as a moderator between victimization and internalizing-externalizing distress from bullying

School Psychology Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-405

  Davidson, Lisa M ^a   Demaray, Michelle Kilpatrick ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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