Peer and parent influences on school engagement among early adolescents

Youth and Society

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-25

  Simons Morton, Bruce ^a   Chen, Rusan ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent growth modeling; School adjustment; Social influences

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949196347     PISSN: 0044118X     EISSN: 15528499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X09334861     Document Type: Article

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