Using latent class analysis to identify aggressors and victims of peer harassment

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-213

  Giang, Michael T ^a   Graham, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent class analysis; Peer harassment; Victimization

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOBIA; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CRIME VICTIMS; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; POVERTY AREAS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; STUDENTS;

EID: 40349103400     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20233     Document Type: Article

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