Personality and gang embeddedness

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 748-753

  Egan, Vincent ^a   Beadman, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gangs; Individual differences; Path analysis; Personality; Resilience; Social learning models

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961210450     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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