Coping with achievement-related failure: An examination of conversations between friends

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 454-487

  Altermatt, Ellen Rydell ^a   Broady, Elizabeth F ^b,c  

^a HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Department of Human Development and Family Sciences ^*

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