Young children who intervene in peer conflicts in multicultural child care centers

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1653-1670

  Van Hoogdalem, Anne Greth ^a   Singer, Elly ^a   Bekkema, Nienke ^a   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child intervention; Peer conflicts; Ultural differences; Young children

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449123317     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908786131261     Document Type: Article

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