Individual correlates of bullying behaviour in Turkish middle schools

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 186-202

  Özer, Arif ^a   Totan, Tarik ^b   Atik, Gökhan ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Academic self efficacy; Bullying; Emotional self efficacy; Gender; Multiple correspondence analysis; Social self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555193422     PISSN: 10372911     EISSN: 18392520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/ajgc.21.2.186     Document Type: Article

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