It's not just being popular, it's knowing it, too: The role of self-perceptions of status in the associations between peer status and aggression

Social Development

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 871-888

  Mayeux, Lara ^a   Cillessen, Antonius H N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Peer relations; Perceived popularity; Self perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049084990     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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