Patterns of change in children's loneliness: Trajectories from third through fifth grades

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-47

  Jobe Shields, Lisa ^a   Cohen, Robert ^a   Parra, Gilbert R ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

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