Assessing sense of community on adolescents: Validating the brief scale of sense of community in adolescents (SoC-A)

Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-292

  Chiessi, Monica ^a   Cicognani, Elvira ^a   Sonn, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 77955607294     PISSN: 00904392     EISSN: 15206629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20364     Document Type: Article

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