Bullying and empathy: A short-term longitudinal investigation

Educational Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 793-802

  Stavrinides, Panayiotis ^a   Georgiou, Stelios ^a   Theofanous, Vaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Bullying; Empathy; Longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957095713     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2010.506004     Document Type: Article

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