Anxious solitude, unsociability, and peer exclusion in middle childhood: A multitrait-multimethod matrix

Social Development

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 833-856

  Spangler, Tamara ^a   Gazelle, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Peer exclusion; Social anxiety; Social withdrawal; Unsociability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349210847     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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