Mothers and children as informants of bullying victimization: Results from an epidemiological cohort of children

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 379-387

  Shakoor, Sania ^a   Jaffee, Sara R ^a   Andreou, Penelope ^a   Bowes, Lucy ^a   Ambler, Antony P ^a   Caspi, Avshalom ^a,b   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a,b   Arseneault, Louise ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Bullying victimization; Informant; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BULLYING; CHILD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TWINS; VICTIM;

BULLYING; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; TWINS;

EID: 79953807376     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-010-9463-5     Document Type: Article

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