Teacher-child relationship quality and children's peer victimization and aggressive behavior in late childhood

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 536-561

  Troop Gordon, Wendy ^a   Kopp, Jessica ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Late childhood; Peer victimization; Teacher child relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960439331     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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