Coping styles as mediators of teachers' classroom management techniques

Research in Education

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-68

  Lewis, Ramon ^a   Roache, Joel ^a   Romi, Shlomo ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84855857779     PISSN: 00345237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/RIE.85.5     Document Type: Article

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