Why Are Socially Anxious Adolescents Rejected by Peers? The Role of Subject-Group Similarity Characteristics

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-134

  Blöte, Anke W ^a   Bokhorst, Caroline L ^a   Miers, Anne C ^a   Westenberg, P Michiel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84857193128     PISSN: 10508392     EISSN: 15327795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2011.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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