Predictive validity and early predictors of peer-victimization trajectories in preschool

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1185-1192

  Barker, Edward D ^a,b   Boivin, Michel ^c   Brendgen, Mara ^d   Fontaine, Nathalie ^c,e   Arseneault, Louise ^b   Vitaro, Frank ^f   Bissonnette, Catherine ^c   Tremblay, Richard E ^g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f School of Psycho education

^g Departments of Pediatrics Psychiatry and Psychology   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

ⁱ Universite Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PEER GROUP; PEER VICTIMIZATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEACHER; VICTIM;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGGRESSION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENTING; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 53849130663     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.65.10.1185     Document Type: Article

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