Do my teachers treat me justly? Implications of students' justice experience for class climate experience

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-305

  Peter, Felix ^a   Dalbert, Claudia ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belief in a just world; Class climate experience; Experience of teacher justice; Multilevel analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956392943     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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