Friendship Preferences Among German and Turkish Preadolescents

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 812-829

  Jugert, Philipp ^a   Noack, Peter ^a   Rutland, Adam ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; TURKEY;

EID: 79955628960     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01528.x     Document Type: Article

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