Same-Gender and Cross-Gender Peer Acceptance and Peer Rejection and Their Relation to Bullying and Helping Among Preadolescents: Comparing Predictions From Gender-Homophily and Goal-Framing Approaches

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1377-1389

  Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis ^a   Lindenberg, Siegwart ^a   Veenstra, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bullying; gender; helping; peer acceptance; peer rejection

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 36348972976     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1377     Document Type: Article

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