Loneliness and social dissatisfaction among behaviourally at-risk children

School Psychology International

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-229

  Galanaki, Evangelia P ^a   Polychronopoulou, Stavroula A ^a   Babalis, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Behaviour problems; Childhood; Loneliness; Social dissatisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149107454     PISSN: 01430343     EISSN: 14617374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143034308090061     Document Type: Article

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