Adolescents' fire-setting awareness under boredom: Relation to personality variables

Psychological Reports

Volumn 94, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 863-871

  Perrin Wallqvist, Renée ^a   Archer, Trevor ^b   Norlander, Torsten ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARSON; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOREDOM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; BOREDOM; FEMALE; FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 4243191375     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.94.3.863-871     Document Type: Article

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